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deeluxx

New Member

Registered: 2011-01-29

Posts: 8

Touch pad tap click not working

Hi there,

Just done a fresh install on crunchbang on my laptop and found that tapping on the touchpad to click doesn't work like usual.

consulted a google about the problem which got me to this page : http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ck-action/ - which shows a solution to the problem in non idiot friendly terms

so i was wondering if someone could show me how to do the above in dummy terms - still a linux noob here haha

thanks in advance

bozhkov

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-12-29

Posts: 464

Re: Touch pad tap click not working

What type of touchpad do you have? And  could you check if you have this entry:

## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
    synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 &
    synclient TapButton1=1 &
    synclient TapButton2=2 &
fi

in /home/user/.config/openbox/autostart.sh or /home/user/.config/xfce4/autostart.sh - depending on what version of Statler you are using.

deeluxx

New Member

Registered: 2011-01-29

Posts: 8

Re: Touch pad tap click not working

the laptop is a dell vostro 1520 if that helps, other than that its just a normal 2 button touchpad.

this is what i have:

## Detect and configure touchpad. See 'man synclient' for more info.
if egrep -iq 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices; then
    synclient VertEdgeScroll=1 &
    synclient TapButton1=1 &
fi

bozhkov

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-12-29

Posts: 464

Re: Touch pad tap click not working

can you try running

synclient TapButton2=2

deeluxx

New Member

Registered: 2011-01-29

Posts: 8

Re: Touch pad tap click not working

you mean add it into the existing file?

bozhkov

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-12-29

Posts: 464

Re: Touch pad tap click not working

Just run it first and see if it's of any use for you. I'm just guessing, may be some reading on synclient might help.

man synclient