touchpad issue

[PaulCartwright]

  On 08/21/2010 01:07 PM, Matthew Saltzman 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...
> Should be a tab under System ->  Preferences ->  Hardware ->  Mouse.
actually, it is system-preferences-mouse. no hardware. But that did it!
> Note that the most recent ALPS touchpads aren't detected properly.
> Tapping works, but scrolling doesn't.
this is a Dell XPS 4-yr-old laptop with a synaptic touchpad..