[Solved] Synaptics tapping

[milomak]

Is it possible to setup tapping so that a fast tap with two fingers behaves like the right click button.

[thunderogg]

I suppose you mean Synaptics and not Synaptic.

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man synaptics

[milomak]

sorry that is exactly what I mean. using gnome, I have the following settings in gsynaptics



My xorg.conf looks like so with respect to the Touchpad

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Section "ServerLayout"                                                                                                                                                                                     
   Identifier   "Default Layout"
   Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
   InputDevice "Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"

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EndSection
Section "Module"
   Load    "glx"
   Load    "synaptics"
   Load    "dri"
   Load    "GLcore"
EndSection

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Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Touchpad"
    Driver          "synaptics"
    Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
    Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
    Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
    Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
    Option          "New AccelFactor"       "0.03"
    Option          "LeftEdge"              "100"
    Option          "RightEdge"             "1120"
    Option          "TopEdge"               "50"
    Option          "BottomEdge"            "310"
    Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.94"
    Option          "MaxSpeed"              "1"
    Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.0015"
#tapping
    Option          "FingerHigh"            "30"
    Option          "FingerLow"             "20"
    Option          "MaxTapTime"            "150"
    Option          "FastTaps"              "1"
    Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
    Option          "TapButton2"            "2"
    Option          "TapButton3"            "3"
#edge scroll
    Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "0"
    Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
    Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "5"
    Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
#two finger scroll
    Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"
    Option          "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "1"
EndSection

edit: i get the same result even if I disable Enable Faster Tapping

[stevepusser]

I'm currently using the Lenny xorg which does not support much, but have you tried "xinput"?

You can get freakin' multitouch with a new enough xorg: http://linuxformat.com/content/synaptics-multitouch

[milomak]

i am not particularly married to xorg. if there is a udev solution i will take that.

it seems to me that this configuration may work. Thing is where would I put it?

[smallchange]

Debian Wiki suggests /etc/udev/rules.d/99-synaptics.rules .

[milomak]

does this work in debian?

all other features work. soft tapping doesn't.

[gradinaruvasile]

Try synclient's options. I mapped right-click with it to the bottom right corner tap.

[milomak]

ah that's helped. I ran synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=1 and synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2.

One finger tapping emulates left click. Two finger tapping doesn't emulate right click. what should i do to emulate the latter?

[bmc5311]

ah that's helped. I ran synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=1 and synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2.
One finger tapping emulates left click. Two finger tapping doesn't emulate right click. what should i do to emulate the latter?

Not sure if this will help or not -
- here's an an old xorg.conf file, i had a macbook and had two finger right click working fine..

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# xorg.conf - for 1st gen macbook
# (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Generic Keyboard"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option      "XkbRules"   "xorg"
#   Option      "XkbModel"   "pc105"
   Option      "XkbLayout"   "us"
   Option      "XkbVariant"   "mac"
   Option      "XkbOptions"   "lv3:ralt_switch"
   Option      "XkbOption"     "numpad:mac"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Configured Mouse"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option      "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier   "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver      "synaptics"
   Option      "SendCoreEvents"   "true"
   Option      "Device"      "/dev/psaux"
   Option      "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
        Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "20"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "70"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
        Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "0"
        Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"
        Option          "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "1"
   Option      "MultiFingerButton"   "2"
#        Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
#        Option          "TapButton2"            "3"
#        Option          "TapButton3"            "2"


EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier   "Default Screen"
   Monitor      "Configured Monitor"
   Device      "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier   "Default Layout"
   Screen      "Default Screen"
   InputDevice   "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

[gradinaruvasile]

ah that's helped. I ran synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=1 and synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2.

One finger tapping emulates left click. Two finger tapping doesn't emulate right click. what should i do to emulate the latter?

Ok, i am now on my laptop - i have an autorun script doing the following:

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synclient HorizEdgeScroll=1 RBCornerButton=3 TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3 "FastTaps"=1 SingleTapTimeout=50

[milomak]

Anyone been able to get this working on one of the later MBPs?

Or maybe what device I need to check is running with respect to bmc5311's post.

I still have:
1 soft touch - click
2 soft touches - nothing or sometimes paste

This is in Gnome environment if it helps.

[milomak]

I did a bit more digging into the whole issue:

I noticed the following in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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(II) bcm5974: buttons: left double triple

So i decided to do the following:

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synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2

which solved the problem. Essentially the log output shows 3 buttons being recognised and i figured the order must be button 1, 2 and 3. So in essence I wanted two fingers to emulate button 3.