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Synaptics touchpad tapping
« Thread Started on Feb 27, 2012, 12:29pm »

One of the issues i had when i installed SalineOS is that my synaptics touchpad would not recognize tapping as a left mouse click.
I did a little googling and found this thread which states:

"tapping has been disabled upstream in the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package."

Regardless of why it's really not working, I was able to get it working by making a script.

I made a script called "tapping.sh" and placed it in /etc/xdg/autostart

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#!/bin/bash

synclient TapButton1=1
synclient TapButton2=2
synclient TapButton3=3

Now everything is working fine, but being newer to linux, I'm wondering if there was a better way i could of implemented this?

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Re: Synaptics touchpad tapping
« Reply #1 on Apr 15, 2012, 5:53pm »

update on this,

if you find your script not working you might need to chmod your script to the correct permissions for it to run. On a fresh reinstall i had to open a terminal and: "chmod 755 /etc/xdg/autostart/tapping.sh"

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Re: Synaptics touchpad tapping
« Reply #2 on Apr 15, 2012, 11:10pm »

That is wise advice

You maybe interested in these two little tidbits from the Xfce 4.10 pre1 release notes:

Add support to xfsettingsd for pointing device properties.
Rework the mouse dialog and add support for basic synaptics and wacom settings.

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Re: Synaptics touchpad tapping
« Reply #3 on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44pm »

It is an old thread. I want to think you for posting because it lead me to a solution for my touchpad (Elantech) on a Dell 11z laptop.

I used slightly different codes so I can emulate right click with two-finger tap. My two finger vertical scrolling was working but no horizontal two finger scrolling so I added another line.

It would be nice to see a mouse/touch pad configuration tool like the gsynaptic in Ubuntu. I installed it on DEV2 and tried it but it did not work. It is probably some dependency issue.

Anyway, here is my (different) codes:

synclient TapButton2=3
synclient TapButton3=2
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1

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Re: Synaptics touchpad tapping
« Reply #4 on Mar 19, 2013, 5:53pm »

This is being worked on upstream in Xfce, eventually these options will be handled in the Xfce settings manager, under mouse.

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