Enrico Rossi

SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad and Tapping

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Last update of Debian Stretch (aka testing) the Synaptics TouchPad on lenovo stop accept tapping with fingers. It it now the default to disable tapping on touchpads with physical buttons. To re-enable:

xinput --set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 0 0 0 0 1 2 3

See: man synaptics for more info.

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Sounds good.


I hate tapping xD

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2016-06-06T12:15:24Z

thanks for the info

Dana at 2016-06-06T12:21:18Z

I'm using:
synclient TapButton1=1

...and it's ok...
See this note too:
https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad#Change_to_libinput_Xorg_driver_in_Debian_9_.22Stretch.22

With Gnome there no problems, tapping is the default, but actually I'm using LXQT.

MATTEO BECHINI at 2016-06-07T13:25:02Z

Yes, before Debian switched to libinput. Since I generally try to stay with the defaults, I have switched from synclient to xinput. Anyway it is up to you :)

Enrico Rossi at 2016-06-07T13:39:26Z