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walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 104

[SOLVED] Tap-to-Click Stops Working After Awhile After Upgrade Today

After upgrading today, tap-to-click on my laptop touchpad stops working after awhile under both upgraded kernels. I'm assuming the issue has something to do with the kernels. Tap-to-click stops working much more quickly under the regular kernel than the LTS kernel.

I'm using synclient to manage the laptop touchpad and I'm using the Openbox window manager with the following settings for touchpad use in the ~/.config/openbox/autostart file:

### TOUCHPAD: comment out the next two entries if you don't have one

## Configure touchpad. See 'man synaptics' for more info.
## Now might be using libinput
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=1 TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 &

## Disable touchpad while typing
syndaemon -i .5 -K -t -R -d &

### TOUCHPAD END

Last edited by walkingstickfan (2023-08-16 12:46:16)

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thoth

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Registered: 2010-01-10

Posts: 79

Re: [SOLVED] Tap-to-Click Stops Working After Awhile After Upgrade Today

I'm noticing similar behavior from syndaemon did you ever find a fix?

walkingstickfan

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From: USA

Registered: 2021-05-10

Posts: 104

Re: [SOLVED] Tap-to-Click Stops Working After Awhile After Upgrade Today

Issue seemed to resolve itself...perhaps a bug fix in the kernels? Tap-to-click still breaks on my laptop every time there's a kernel upgrade, but I figured out how to resolve that by just restarting syndaemon from the command line:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 HorizEdgeScroll=1 TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 &

Rebooting my laptop also resolves tap-to-click disabling after a kernel upgrade.

Last edited by walkingstickfan (2023-08-16 12:46:39)

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