[SOLVED]Touch pad moves but doesn't select

[Gabriele_Angelo]

Hello there i'm using LMDE on my laptop.
Using touch pad i can move my pointer, i can scroll and the two buttons work perfectly, but if i hit the pad as a click (or double click) it does nothing.
Has anyone encountered this problem before?

[aljoriz]

To activate "click on tap" for your touchpad,
Goto the terminal type

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

and replace the content of the file with the following:

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

[Gabriele_Angelo]

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$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Thanks for your help but... i mean... i think lines are the same, but still doesn't work... i rebooted twice.

[xircon]

Try (from a terminal):

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synclient TapButton1=1

May give some useful errors if it doesn't work.

Cheers

Steve

[Gabriele_Angelo]

Uhm i got something unexpected. I got nothing, i mean when i type

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synclient TapButton1=1

on terminal, the system respond with a new line ready to receive a new command without writing anything.
I think i miss some driver, i'll check them out.

[xircon]

Hmmmm, if the driver wasn't installed I would expect error messages, not the other way round.

[aljoriz]

Thanks for your help but... i mean... i think lines are the same, but still doesn't work... i rebooted twice.

when you reboot type

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

REMOVE all the COMMENTS so that entry would really be just this

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

Yes it 'looks' the same but the # before the EndSection is considered as a line and not a comment; Tried this before so I hope this will help you.

[Gabriele_Angelo]

Well i put together the section. Nothing.
I moved to top the section. Nothing.
I did what wrote on this lines

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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.

and the erased all comments. Nothing.
Now in

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

i have only this

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 $ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
EndSection


So weird.

[xircon]

Are you on a 32 or 64 bit system? I have written a little gui to control synclient, its 64 bit. Its in my dropbox http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286239/scgui

The buttons go green when set on, grey when set off. Works well on my system and has for months. If you click touchpad off, press enter to turn it back on.

Might work, might not.

[Gabriele_Angelo]

I'm on a 32 bit system, i tried to execute it anyway and i got errors and these two files

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$ sudo ./scgui
./scgui: 1: 8: not found
./scgui: 6: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

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?

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????@@8?@??@@?????????P?P??P???%?vdUPX!?????2ߥ2???????

They were empty text files.

[xircon]

Won't run on a 32bit system afaik. All is does is act as a frontend to synclient anyway. Can't recompile, it is written in Free Pascal / Lazarus (which is the IDE for FPC).

[malligt]

In my own experience, this depends on what hardware that your laptop has installed in it. My touchpad would slide perfectly, but would not "click" or "tap".

After further investigation, I found that I had ALPS Glide Point/Stick Pointer installed as the hardware for my touchpad, and sadly,that LMDE would not work with it.

(Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop)

So check out your installed hardware...that might just be the problem.

[Gabriele_Angelo]

So check out your installed hardware...that might just be the problem.

That's what i thought at first, so i checked for drivers, but the problem was not there.
Looking in my mouse preferences i noticed that the cell that allows clicks with touch-pad was unchecked.

I'm feeling really really n00b right now. <.<

Anyway i thank you all especially xircon that tried to help me with that application.

(I still feel like a n00b)

How to write SOLVED on this topic?

[aljoriz]

Edit your first post and add SOLVED to the subject line.

[jimod4343]

To activate "click on tap" for your touchpad,
Goto the terminal type

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

and replace the content of the file with the following:

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

Worked perfectly for me on my Acer Aspire 5741 Laptop. Now a happy camper - thanks.