Fwd: enable tap on fedora 23

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Massimo Canonico <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone on this?
> Thanks,
> M
>
> On 21/12/15 13:47, Massimo Canonico wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> on fedora 20 the tap on my touchpad were wroking by adding this in
>> .fluxbox/startup:
>> synclient TapButton1=1
>>
>> Now, in fedora 23 it seems not working.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M

As I'm using Xorg 1.18.0, now I'm using libinput, and I have in:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

The following:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "MyTouchpad"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection

No need to specify the driver (by default libinput), though it's
suggested on [1].  Not sure if it would work for synaptics on the same
Xorg version (maybe).  This actullay sets the tapping I want, without
needing any additional manual settings afterwords...

And if using the synaptics driver, then I guess you could instead have in:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

Something like:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
EndSection

Or, as suggested by [2], something like:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "35"
        Option "FingerHigh" "40"
        ...
EndSection

My point is, that you can configure synaptics or libinput through Xorg
configuration files, without the need of manual utilities to tweak
configurations afterwords (like synclient).

Other than that, I've never used that synaptics utility.  I've always
configured the Xorg drivers from the Xorg configuration files...

Something on top of the prior, what Xorg version are you using?  Can
you check if using libinput rather than Synaptics (you can always
specify the driver you want on the Xorg configuration files)?  You can
quickly search for the input drivers Xorg is using on the Xorg log:

grep -e "Using input driver" <path_to_Xorg_log>/Xorg.0.log

In my case:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

But might also be:

~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

As suggested by [1].  Depending on your Xorg, and the drivers you have
installed, it might be you're using libinput rather than synaptics...
And if that's the case, you can configure libinput as commented
before, or you can configure Xorg to use synaptics instead as also
commented before.

Hope it helps...

--
Javier


[1]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput
[2]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

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