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tony5429

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[SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

I have used xf86-input-synaptics for my laptop's touchpad for a long time with no issues. It's the sort of touchpad that has buttons at the bottom for clicking, but is also supposed to let you click by simply tapping anywhere. I recently re-installed Arch on my system and found that now I can only click using the buttons at the bottom. That is, if I try to simply tap anywhere on the touchpad, the click does not register. Any ideas?

[karam@yuri ~]$ xinput -list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HD WebCam                                 id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Acer WMI hotkeys                          id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
[karam@yuri ~]$

Last edited by tony5429 (2016-01-21 16:50:55)

nicovell3

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

Which desktop environment are you using? Gnome lets you configure click with a simple tap at the mouse configuration

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

Post the output of:

synclient

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tony5429

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

I'm on KDE. I looked through the mouse settings, but couldn't find anything promising.

Running synclient as root:

[root@yuri karam]# synclient
No protocol specified
Failed to connect to X Server.

Running synclient as non-root:

[karam@yuri ~]$ synclient
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

rlees85

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

Have you installed xf86-input-synaptics ??

pacman -S --needed xf86-input-synaptics

edit: lol wrong thread!!

Last edited by rlees85 (2015-06-16 18:09:33)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

I'm on KDE.

I don't think KDE honours the synclient (synaptics) settings anyway.

Put "KDE" in the thread title to attract the attention of other KDE users (not me).

Does `synclient` produce an output in (for example) Openbox?

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dcdriving

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

Have you selected "Mouse Click Emulation" in System Settings -> Input Devices -> Touchpad Settings.  I used KDE on arch without any issue but had xf86-input-synaptics installed as previously suggested but running XFCE now.  (Have access to KDE running with Fedora and works ok without xf86-input-synaptics though but not all touchpad functions are highlighted.)
edit: xf86-input-synaptics has a different package name on fedora and is installed.

Last edited by dcdriving (2015-06-16 20:03:01)

tony5429

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad Not Clicking with Tapping

Enabling "Mouse Click Emulation" in System Settings > Input Devices > Touchpad did the trick!