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aw_yt

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

I cannot get tap to click work in GNOME and i donot get any touch pad setting options either in GNOME Mouse and Touchpad settings.
I can get tap to click work with synclient but that lasts only till reboot.
My conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
	Option "TouchpadOff" "0" 
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "0"
        Option "TapButton3" "0"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "35"
        Option "FingerHigh" "40"
EndSection

So according to conf i should be able to click through touchpad but i am not able to.
Thankyou

Last edited by aw_yt (2015-08-01 21:28:40)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

Are you using GNOME with Wayland?

The touchpad support is via libinput rather than synaptics (AFAIK).

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aw_yt

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

Thankyou but no, i am not using wayland.

dcdriving

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2015-01-20

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

There is a note on this in the wiki about gnome overriding the settings despite no graphical config.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To … 2FCinnamon

aw_yt

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

There is a note on this in the wiki about gnome overriding the settings despite no graphical config.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To … 2FCinnamon

Yes i did see that already but i couldn't figure out a way to stop that.

aw_yt

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Registered: 2015-07-30

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME, neglecting my 50-synaptics.conf

Turns out that i couldn't get to view settings immediately after installing dconf-editor however after restart i was able to solve the problem by following this:

Run dconf-editor
Edit /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse/
Uncheck the active setting