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bwat47

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Registered: 2011-12-01

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Touchpad 2/3 finger tap not working

I just installed crunchbang on my laptop, which has an elantech (synaptics) touchpad. 2 finger scroll works, but 2 and 3 finger taps for right and middle click don't work at all, and I see no place to configure them. Is there anyway I can get this to work?

machinebacon

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Re: Touchpad 2/3 finger tap not working

Hello and welcome to #!

Until you get an answer from somebody who knows better than me you can try a forum search for 'elantech' and have a look here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ultitouch/

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sleeveroller

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Registered: 2011-02-25

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Re: Touchpad 2/3 finger tap not working

I used this thread to get the initial touchpad working correctly.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=71944

But if you have 2 finger scrolling already working you can probably just run

synclient -l | grep TapButton

and take a look at the values for 2 and 3 if they are 0 then you need to configure them.

to test you can run

synclient TapButton2=2
synclient TapButton3=3

and that should enable 2 and 3 finger taps.

To store these permanently copy '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf' to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf' if it doesn't already exist.

Then add these lines to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf':

Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"

I actually use these the other way round i.e. TapButton2=3 so I get right click for a double tap.

Just be careful if wrongly configured file can sometimes stop X from starting.

This all worked for me.

Jargen

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Registered: 2012-09-23

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Re: Touchpad 2/3 finger tap not working

Thank you for your tip, i couldn't find anything else that would work. And this worked for me
Thank you again