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the big bug

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Registered: 2021-01-09

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[FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

Hi there. I just installed arch, I have tried it on both a GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop evironment, and the contents of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf is as follows:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "3"
        Option "TapButton3" "2"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
EndSection 

My touchpad works as a cursor, I can scroll with it, however it wont register a mouse click regardless of clicking the touchpad buttons or tapping the touchpad. I have no issues with an external USB mouse.

Some help would be appreciated.

Last edited by the big bug (2021-01-09 14:37:38)

nd925a

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Registered: 2017-01-30

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Re: [FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

From GNOME wikipage

Note: The synaptics driver is not supported by GNOME. Instead, you should use libinput.

the big bug

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Re: [FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

I later installed KDE plasma, however the issue is still here.

Docbroke

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Re: [FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

Where did you get that synaptics config file ? World has moved to libinput, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput

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the big bug

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Re: [FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

Fair, I've checked the libinput stuff yet I still cannot configure it.

See libinput(4) for general options to set and information about allowable values. The xinput tool is used to view or change options available for a particular device at runtime. For example:

 $ xinput list 

however I get an error message saying "xinput: command not found". I have libinput installed. Is there another way to do this?

EDIT: Alright, I've looked at /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf and my touchpad configuration there is as follows:

Section "InputClass"
              Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
              MatchIsTouchpad "on"
              MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
              Driver "libinput"
              Option "Tapping" "on"
              Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
EndSection

I cannot tap to use mouse buttons either despite this configuration.

I have uninstalled synaptics, yet nothing has changed.

Last edited by the big bug (2021-01-09 14:27:06)

the big bug

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Re: [FIXED] Laptop no touchpad buttons

Alright, i dont know how or why but I solved it.

My keyboard layout was also stuck in en-us despite there only being trq in the gui and despite writing loadkeys trq in the terminal. After pressing ctrl+alt+k, both my keyboard and touchpad starded working normally.