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

[Álvaro Castillo]

If you do not like touchpad. Can disable on your laptop with Fn keys.
However who can use it need edit somefiles...add code to uses it....

So. I never occurs that I pushed my finger accidentaly and moved cursor. Lol
On Sep 18, 2012 2:16 PM, "Álvaro Castillo" <netsys at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> 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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>> mike c
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