Enable tap to click?

[PawnTakesKing]

After installing Xfce and enabling my wireless, my next order of business is to fix the trackpad. Everything works except for tap to click. Oddly enough I don't see an option to enable it in the Mouse preferences. Can someone recommend a fix?

[aljoriz]

I assume you are using LMDE XFCE RC:

go to the terminal and type:

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

then replace with:

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

Then save the file, close gedit

go back to the terminal and type: sudo reboot

log-in and test the touch pad by tapping on it to open files

[PawnTakesKing]

Thanks! This worked beautifully.

[aljoriz]

BTW you have to re-do the trick when you update the kernels, its a drag hence I am staying with Mint 9 XFCE until LMDX (Mint Debian Xfce) is more polished.

[Timmi]

I assume you are using LMDE XFCE RC:

go to the terminal and type:

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

then replace with:

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

Then save the file, close gedit

go back to the terminal and type: sudo reboot

log-in and test the touch pad by tapping on it to open files

This also worked to resolve the 2-finger scrolling on the touchpad / mousepad / trackpad issue where that was not working before.

Thank you very much!

[Timmi]

BTW you have to re-do the trick when you update the kernels, its a drag hence I am staying with Mint 9 XFCE until LMDX (Mint Debian Xfce) is more polished.

I'm running Mint XFCE 201104 and after updating it sticks... have done several updates and it still works. The 2 finger scrolling too.

[Hutch]

I already had 1 click to open files using behaviour/preferences and this opened files ok with one click but not icons on the desktop. I tried the above suggestion but I still can't get desktop icons to open without clicking twice.