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dafero

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From: /home/dafero

Registered: 2014-03-22

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Persistent Synaptics touchpad configuration

Hi all,

I have a HP laptop with a Synaptics touchpad/clickpad that supports multi-touch gestures.

$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities
	Synaptics Capabilities (325):	1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1

I've been playing with the config in '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf' but after rebooting I can still use some options that I specifically disabled, such as TapButton1 and TapButton2.

This is what I have in ' /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf ':

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Touchpad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
            Option "ClickPad" "true"
            Option "TapButton1" "0"
            Option "TapButton2" "0"
            Option "TapButton3" "2"
            Option "ClickFinger1" "1"
            Option "ClickFinger2" "3"
            Option "ClickFinger3" "0"
            Option "SoftButtonAreas" "75% 0 80% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

And this is the output of synclient after rebooting (edited to remove irrelevant options).

$ synclient -l
Parameter settings:
    ....
    TapButton1              = 1
    TapButton2              = 3
    TapButton3              = 2
    ClickFinger1            = 1
    ClickFinger2            = 3
    ClickFinger3            = 2
    ....

What am I doing wrong? I am using Gnome. Could be possible that Gnome's default touchpad config would be messing with my config?
Thanks for your help!
Dani.

Last edited by dafero (2015-08-05 18:25:17)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: [SOLVED] Persistent Synaptics touchpad configuration

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/To … 2FCinnamon

Related: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200494

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dafero

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From: /home/dafero

Registered: 2014-03-22

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Persistent Synaptics touchpad configuration

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=200494

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

After disabling the option and rebooting the system the configuration in 50-synaptics.conf was successfully applied

Thanks @Head_on_a_Stick!!

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