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SiegeMachine

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[Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

[siegemachine@Siege-LapLinux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
            Option "TapButton1" "1"
            Option "TapButton2" "2"
            Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VergEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
EndSection

According to the wiki the line

Option "TapButton1" "1"

is supposed to enable the 1 finger tap = left mouse click but for some reason it isn't working now.  It had been working fine before then I started to change the settings since after my last pacman -Syu edge scrolling stopped working, and since I made that work I can't tap click anymore.  Is there something wrong with my config file?

Last edited by SiegeMachine (2011-06-19 05:46:05)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

Well, the configuration file is correct.
Can you look through your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what happened when the synaptic driver loaded.  If you want, post it to pastebin and post a link here and I'll take a look.

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SiegeMachine

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

Ok well I removedd gpointer-device-settings and now tap click works again, however edge scrolling doesn't despite the fact its enabled in the .conf. I'm kind of lost on that one. Two finger scrolling works now too.

bangkok_manouel

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

Option "VergEdgeScroll" "on"

there's a typo in there

SiegeMachine

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

http://pastebin.com/ic7Gr21c
Here is the Xorg.0.log after removing gpointer-device-settings.  Like I said the 1 finger 2 finger and three finger stuff works now, however the edge scrolling does not appear to work right now.

bangkok_manouel

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

protip: look one post above yours

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

Option "VergEdgeScroll" "on"

there's a typo in there

I'd say you nailed it -- good catch.
Other than that, the Xorg log looks good.

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SiegeMachine

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

Ok well I saw that and changed it, restarted X but it doesn't seem to be working still.... Maybe a full restart?

SiegeMachine

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

LOL my goodness I typod it again.  Thanks for the help guys it works now!

shadowroot

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

removedd gpointer-device-settings ???
where it is located ??

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] Touchpad Synaptics no tap click?

In the past.

Don't necrobump.

Closing.

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