Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by default?

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Dec 11 04:04:55 UTC 2012


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 02:02:57PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:15:46PM +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > On Seg, 2012-12-10 at 09:05 +0100, valent.turkovic at gmail.com wrote:
> > >         
> > >         It's a function of the desktop, and we go with the upstream
> > >         desktop defaults, AFAIK.
> > >         -- 
> > >         Adam Williamson
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Adam, when I asked upstream on few similar simple tweaks usually
> > > answers was something like this: "We don't care, you can change it the
> > > way you like it." 
> > > 
> > > Any comments?  
> > 
> > 
> > Of course, I have my script, that I run when is necessary. 
> > 
> > cat ~/syncl.sh 
> > synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
> > synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
> > synclient -l | grep -i scroll
> > synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
> > synclient HorizEdgeScroll=1
> > synclient -l | grep -i tap
> > synclient TapButton1=1
> > synclient TapButton2=1
> > synclient TapButton3=1
> 
> 
> Why do you have a script for that instead of an xorg.conf.d snippet which
> would make this permanent?

christ, I need more coffee. sorry, misread the config file. this is indeed a
configuration that would be overwritten by gnome with no direct UI.

Anyway, this seems something that
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635486 should address

Cheers,
   Peter


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