Trackpad

To get tapping working with your touchpad/trackpad, you can try the following methods:

1. xorg.conf.d

from Arch wikihttps://wiki.archlinux....

sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

add these lines and save

Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad catchall" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "TapButton" "1" Option "TapButton" "2" Option "TapButton" "3" Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on" Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on" Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on" Option "CircularScrolling" "on" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0" Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40" Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8" Option "CoastingSpeed" "0" EndSection

2. synclient

But that didn't do much for my Compaq CQ40's touchpad, so I put this in a Terminal..

synclient TapButton1=1

and tried tapping, good result

added it to ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart or ~/.config/openbox/autostart with,

@synclient TapButton1=1
or
@synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3

3. script

adapted from http://forums.debian.net...

make a script /usr/bin/synstart containing..

#!/bin/bash synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3 VertEdgeScroll=1 VertScrollDelta=45 HorizEdgeScroll=1 HorizScrollDelta=45 # Set multi-touch emulation parameters xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 32 10 xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Width" 32 8 xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1 xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 8 1 1 # Disable edge scrolling xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 8 0 0 0 # This will make cursor not to jump if you have two fingers on the touchpad and you lift one # (which you usually do after two-finger scrolling) xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Jumpy Cursor Threshold" 32 110 # Set 1 2 and 3 finger taps xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Tap Action" 8 0 0 0 0 1 3 2

make it executable and add a line to autostart..

@sh /usr/bin/synstart