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Posted: **Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:39 pm**

Here is what worked for me, to enable 'tap-to-click' and vertical scrolling on my Dell laptop with Synaptics touchpad:

Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, add 2 lines
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"

so that it looks like:

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

the 'touchpad' tab still doesn't appear in the mouse config GUI, but at least the touchpad is working the way I expect it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:16 am**

Thanks for the advice akela.
I hade actually already tried this, setting the TapButton1 option to 0 instead of one (I want to disable it).
But neither is the tap-to-click feature disabled, neither does the vertical edge scrolling work. (this last feature is not important to me, but it's still a system that the driver is not engaged as it should).

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 10:57 am**

Upgrading to Update Pack 4 solved the problem for me. Finally!

Posted: **Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:39 am**

Solved with update pack 4.

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