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

Álvaro Castillo netsys at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 18 13:16:24 UTC 2012


Yest... Need edit files to use something as touchpad :)
On Sep 18, 2012 2:11 PM, "mike cloaked" <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:55 PM,  <John.Florian at dart.biz> wrote:
> > devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote on 09/18/2012 08:09:33:
> >
> >> From: Florian Müllner <fmuellner at gnome.org>
> >> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> >> <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >> Date: 09/18/2012 08:10
> >> Subject: Re: Why is not enabled TapButton of touchpad on Fedora by
> >> default?
> >> Sent by: devel-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Camilo Mesias <camilo at mesias.co.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I always enable the feature but it is an ongoing annoyance that it is
> >> > disabled at GDM, is there any way to force it to default to on for the
> >> > whole system?
> >>
> >> I have the following in /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/10-local-settings:
> >>
> >> [org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/mouse]
> >> active=true
> >>
> >> [org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/touchpad]
> >> tap-to-click=true
> >>
> >> You will need to run "dconf update" as root for the change to take
> effect.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Florian
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> >
> > Any ideas on the equivalent for KDM?
> >
>
> Why not enable it in xorg itself - from memory you can look for a file
> like /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf (or possibly in
> /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf or similar)
>
> Then ensure that you have a section like:
>
> Section "InputClass"
>         Identifier "touchpad catchall"
>         Driver "synaptics"
>         MatchIsTouchpad "on"
>         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>         Option "TapButton1" "1"
>         Option "TapButton2" "2"
>         Option "TapButton3" "3"
>         Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
> EndSection
>
> When you boot you should have touchpad buttons available even at the
> KDM greeter stage for login - (I guess same for GDM though I am a KDE
> user only)
>
> I have been doing this for several years with my laptops....
>
>
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