Bug 561163

Summary: touchpad tapping not enabled
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Clark Tompsett <clarkt>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Forgotten User Wum0mkMcd8 <forgotten_Wum0mkMcd8>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Bug Depends on: 554884    
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Description Clark Tompsett 2009-12-06 01:06:48 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091103 SUSE/3.5.5-2.2 Firefox/3.5.5

The autoconfig for X does not setup touchpad for tapping.  You can move the mouse with the pad only

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install factory on a laptop
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Actual Results:  
touchpad does not accept tapping

Expected Results:  
tapping should work.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-06 08:40:10 UTC 
Apparently it's not appreciated to have it enabled by default. See Bug #554884 for more details. I suggest to enable it manually if you want it. With gsynaptics, ksynaptics or synclient.
Comment 2 Clark Tompsett 2009-12-06 15:48:10 UTC 
then you need to add gsynaptics to the laptop package.  It's the only package that is available.  Your going to p*** off people with laptops by not documenting this or putting a package in and having it setup for them.
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-06 19:48:57 UTC 
Looks like ksynaptics has been dropped. synclient is part of xorg-x11-driver-input package, which is definitely installed. Otherwise synaptics driver wouldn't be in use. I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to add gsynaptics package to KDE4 pattern (directly or indirectly via laptop pattern) ...
Comment 4 Clark Tompsett 2009-12-06 23:47:10 UTC 
synclient is a text only program.  Most users will not know about it or how to use it.
Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2009-12-06 23:55:24 UTC 
Very useful though. You can add a line like

  synclient TapButton1=1

to your ~/.xinitrc and you're done. I wouldn't underestimate our user base.