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zhaoyu

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Registered: 2009-02-16

Posts: 2

touchpad tap/sliding does not work [solved]

When I use laptop with windows, I can use tap to select a window and sliding on the touchpad to move the selected window. Now my touchpad is recognized by arch, but this tap/sliding is not functioning.

I tried this thread, but it still does not works.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 89#p456689

Last edited by zhaoyu (2009-02-16 18:46:33)

Lilim

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 37

Re: touchpad tap/sliding does not work [solved]

Maybe you've got the ALPS touchpad? Read through Touchpad Synaptics. The solution you've used did not work for me until I used the solution for ALPS.

zhaoyu

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Registered: 2009-02-16

Posts: 2

Re: touchpad tap/sliding does not work [solved]

Maybe you've got the ALPS touchpad? Read through Touchpad Synaptics. The solution you've used did not work for me until I used the solution for ALPS.

Thank you! I thought I'm using hotplugging, but actually I did not. I followed the the wiki page and setup the touchpad in xorg.conf with ALPS configuration. It actioned wired. So I changed to the normal setting and add this too.

Section "InputDevice"
        ...
        Option "TapButton1" "integer"
        Option "TapButton2" "integer"
        Option "TapButton3" "integer"
        ...
EndSection

Finally, it works.
BTW, in my case, my device is Touchpad instead of SynapticsTouchpad, which is different from the wiki.
Thank you again.

How can I mark it as solved?

Lilim

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 37

Re: touchpad tap/sliding does not work [solved]

Congratulations  

How can I mark it as solved?

Just edit the first post and add [SOLVED] in the subject.

Last edited by Lilim (2009-02-16 19:13:59)