[SOLVED]Synaptics Touchpad won't use touch-click ect.

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Number3124 · #1 Post by **Number3124** » 2017-11-20 06:40

It's always something with every new version of Debian on this laptop. This time it's my touchpad. It won't/I can't figure out how to make it let me use touch and multitouch clicks this time (when you can tap your finger anywhere on the touchpad to activate a mouse click instead of clicking the control area at the bottom of the pad). I'm using Debian 9.2.0 with Kernel Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 x86_64 and MATE 1.16.2. I have a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad.

If you need anymore information I either forgot to include it because I'm slightly frustrated or didn't know how to get it/didn't realize you'd need it.

Thanks in advance!

IzayoiFlandre · #2 Post by **IzayoiFlandre** » 2017-11-20 07:55

I'm having the exact same issue here! The wiki says the following for debian 9:

"In most cases, make sure you have the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package installed, and not the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package."

I'll see if that works later because I'm not able to do it now, but feel free to get back to me earlier ^^

Number3124 · #3 Post by **Number3124** » 2017-11-20 08:30

I'm wondering if it isn't because MATE uses a different GUI application than GNOME?

Number3124 · #4 Post by **Number3124** » 2017-11-20 08:51

Also, as an addendum, everything else about it still works including two finger scrolling.

Wheelerof4te · #5 Post by **Wheelerof4te** » 2017-11-20 10:13

In GNOME and KDE there is a graphical tool to enable "tap to click". In GNOME, it is under "Mouse and Touchpad" settings, don't know where in KDE.

In other DEs, you can use the following:
https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchp ... n_touchpad

IzayoiFlandre · #6 Post by **IzayoiFlandre** » 2017-11-20 10:27

LXDE doesn't have the option to enable tap-to-click so I'll follow what is in that wiki article. Thanks for the link

Lysander · #7 Post by **Lysander** » 2017-11-20 12:45

IzayoiFlandre wrote:LXDE doesn't have the option to enable tap-to-click so I'll follow what is in that wiki article. Thanks for the link

I had exactly the same issue as you and the link solved it. OP really should have Googled.

Number3124 · #8 Post by **Number3124** » 2017-11-20 19:08

Wheelerof4te wrote:In GNOME and KDE there is a graphical tool to enable "tap to click". In GNOME, it is under "Mouse and Touchpad" settings, don't know where in KDE.

In other DEs, you can use the following:
https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchp ... n_touchpad

Thanks a lot. I'd been through that article once. I guess I must have skipped that section by mistake.

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