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= How to enable touchpad click

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[[scope]]
== Scope

Fedora tries to make various desktop environments available to its
users. Since Fedora tries to
link:Staying_close_to_upstream_projects[stay as close to upstream] as
possible, we follow the various defaults selected by the desktop
environment upstreams. Generally, this entails a disabled touchpad click
by default. This wiki page tries to compile the different methods that
can be used to enable "tapping" on various desktop environments.

*Please note that this is only a resource to aid our users. For
discussions on this setting, please talk to the relevant DE upstream.
Fedora does not intend to make any changes to upstream defaults.*

[[desktop-configurations]]
== Desktop configurations

This wiki page has more information about
link:Input_device_configuration[Input Device configuration]. An example
xorg.conf.d snippet to enable tapping is given
Input_device_configuration#Example:_Tap-to-click[here].

[[gnome]]
=== GNOME

The "*mouse and touchpad*" utility can be used to enable tapping and set
scrolling options in GNOME.

http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/mouse-touchpad-click.html.en[Official
GNOME documentation]

[[kde-plasma-workspaces]]
=== KDE Plasma Workspaces

1.  enter KDE System Settings
2.  choose Hardware / Input Devices / Touchpad (If it's not there,
    install kcm_touchpad first, then restart System Settings. It's installed
    by default.)
3.  select the Tapping tab
4.  check the "Enable tapping" checkbox
5.  set some tapping actions under "Buttons" below, the default is to do
    nothing

Alternatively, the systemwide method described under
link:#Other_window_managers[Other window managers] can also be used.

[[xfce]]
=== XFCE

1.  Enter XFCE Settings
2.  Select the Mouse and Touchpad settings
3.  If necessary, select your Touchpad device
4.  In the General section, enable "Tap touchpad to click"

[[other-window-managers]]
=== Other window managers

Create a new file named
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-synaptics-overrides.conf.

Then, in your favourite text editor, modify this file as such:

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Section  "InputClass"
    Identifier  "touchpad overrides"
    # This makes this snippet apply to any device with the "synaptics" driver
    # assigned
    MatchDriver  "synaptics"

    ####################################
    ## The lines that you need to add ##
    # Enable left mouse button by tapping
    Option  "TapButton1"  "1"
    # Enable vertical scrolling
    Option  "VertEdgeScroll"  "1"
    # Enable right mouse button by tapping lower right corner
    Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
    ####################################

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For more information on tweaking xorg.conf.d files, please read the man
page:

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