Touchpad click not working with other DE than gnome
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Using the gnome shell I can "push" the touchpad in order to perform a click with the mouse.
This doesn't work when I'm using awesome or i3.
I read the synaptics manual and as far as I understood I'm supposed to write the options into the xorg.conf.
I'm not quite sure but I think the xorg.conf is no longer used or gets created automatically or something like that. Whenever I tried to change something in this file on newer systems the result was very bad so I'd rather not do it.
But how can I fix this problem without xorg.conf?
Another puzzle solved:
The command "synaptikscfg init"
does the job.
I really don't know why there's a program called "synclient" mentioned in the man page of synaptics (with c) but also a program called synaptiks with k and the according synaptikscfg.
All of them seem to deal with touchpad functionality and have very similar names. Pretty confusing.
>Another puzzle solved:
Glad to hear that.
>synaptiks with k
That sounds like KDE shenanigans
>All of them seem to deal with touchpad functionality and have very similar names. Pretty confusing.
That's the par for the course... :)
If you only add the sections where you do not want the defaults (and let Xorg use its defaults for the rest), there should not be any issue. If /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist on your system, you can create it. You obviously need the administrative privileges to create/modify that file. For instance, using the GEdit text editor:
$ gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You may find this documentation useful.
Synclient should actually be able to set the options for xorg.conf during the session, but non of my settings had any effect. So if synclient is working correctly then it will be no use writing something in xorg.conf.
But maybe it doesn't.
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