Fedora tries to make various desktop environments available to its users. Since Fedora tries to link:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/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.
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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.
This wiki page has more information about link:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration[Input Device configuration]. An example `xorg.conf.d` snippet to enable tapping is given link:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration#Example:_Tap-to-click[here].
The "_mouse and touchpad_" utility can be used to enable tapping and set scrolling options in GNOME. See the link:http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/mouse-touchpad-click.html.en[Official GNOME documentation]
2. Choose Hardware > Input Devices > Touchpad (If the "Touchpad" setting is not there, install kcm_touchpad first, then restart System Settings. It is installed by default.)
5. Set some tapping actions under "Buttons" below, the default is to do
nothing
Alternatively, the systemwide method described under link:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_enable_touchpad_click#Other_window_managers[Other window managers] can also be used.
