touchpad issue-SOLVED

[PaulCartwright]

  On 08/21/2010 12:58 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
>> I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic
>> >  touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP
>> >  the pad to make it do the  same as a left-double-click. I can't figure
>> >  out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that
>> >  would be under...
> System ->  Preferences ->  Mouse . There is a "Touchpad" tab and you click
> the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" box to enable this behavior.

that was it, thanks! I can't imagine why that wasn't checked by 
default... in every other distro I've tried it was the default...