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Thanks for the reply, I was really hopeful that would have been the problem solved! Unfortunately TapButton1 = 1 already, same for TapButton2 and 3... Back to googling a bit more I think... On 18/10/06, Matt <mknight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 20:14, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience with laptop touchpads? Specifically > > the synaptic driver? > Yes indeed. > > > I've got my touchpad set up quite nicely so it's > > not too slow etc but I can't for the life of me get the tap to click > > to work on it, it's not vital but it would make me a bit happier and > > slightly less frustrated. > I used to have exactly the same problem on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX805/Debian Etch. > > > > > Here's the relavent part of my xorg.conf file: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > > Driver "synaptics" > > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > > Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" > > Option "MinSpeed" "0.02" > > Option "MaxSpeed" "0.580" > > Option "AccelFactor" "0.450" > > Option "MaxTapTime" "1000" > > Option "MaxTapMove" "220" > > EndSection > > > > As you can see I've arleady been playing with the "MaxTapTime" options > > and I know, well I think, mine is currently set to a somewhat absurd > > setting but smaller ones didn't make any noticable differences > > (neither does this setting however!). > > >From the command line, "synclient -l" (that's synclient minus ell, not one) > will list all your settings. Look out for > ... > TapButton1 = 1 > TapButton2 = 2 > TapButton3 = 3 > ... > in there somewhere. > > If TapButton1 is anything other than 1, it won't left-click-to-tap. > You can use "synclient TapButton1=1" to see whether it works or not. > There may be some other stuff to dicker with, but that was the crux of it for > me. > > You may or may not then need to find out why it wasn't correct to begin with > (if you want it to work when you next login). > > In my case (I use KDE), I did have ksynaptics installed and it was not > compatible with the latest synaptics driver. > Uninstalling ksynaptics cured it permanently. > > HTH > > > > > > Thanks! > > -- > > Jon > > OK. > Matt > > PS > Here is my entire synclient -l output for reference > -$ synclient -l > Parameter settings: > LeftEdge = 120 > RightEdge = 830 > TopEdge = 120 > BottomEdge = 650 > FingerLow = 14 > FingerHigh = 15 > MaxTapTime = 180 > MaxTapMove = 110 > MaxDoubleTapTime = 180 > SingleTapTimeout = 180 > ClickTime = 100 > FastTaps = 0 > EmulateMidButtonTime = 75 > VertScrollDelta = 20 > HorizScrollDelta = 20 > VertEdgeScroll = 1 > HorizEdgeScroll = 1 > VertTwoFingerScroll = 0 > HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0 > MinSpeed = 0.3 > MaxSpeed = 0.75 > AccelFactor = 0.015 > EdgeMotionMinZ = 30 > EdgeMotionMaxZ = 160 > EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 200 > EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 200 > EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0 > UpDownScrolling = 1 > LeftRightScrolling = 1 > UpDownRepeat = 1 > LeftRightRepeat = 1 > ScrollButtonRepeat = 100 > TouchpadOff = 0 > GuestMouseOff = 0 > LockedDrags = 0 > RTCornerButton = 2 > RBCornerButton = 3 > LTCornerButton = 0 > LBCornerButton = 0 > TapButton1 = 1 > TapButton2 = 2 > TapButton3 = 3 > CircularScrolling = 1 > CircScrollDelta = 0.1 > CircScrollTrigger = 2 > CircularPad = 0 > PalmDetect = 1 > PalmMinWidth = 10 > PalmMinZ = 200 > CoastingSpeed = 0 > PressureMotionMinZ = 30 > PressureMotionMaxZ = 160 > PressureMotionMinFactor = 1 > PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1 > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html