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= How to enable touchpad click
Ankur Sinha; Caleb McKee; Petr Bokoc
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:revnumber: F38
:revdate: 2023-05-08
:category: Administration
:tags: Touchpad
[[scope]]
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== Scope
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.
[NOTE]
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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.
====
[[desktop-configurations]]
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== Desktop configurations
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].
[[gnome]]
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=== GNOME
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]
[[kde-plasma-workspaces]]
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=== KDE Plasma Workspaces
1. Enter KDE System Settings
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.)
3. Select the Tapping tab
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4. Check the "Tap to click" checkbox
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.
// link:#Other_window_managers[Other window managers] can also be used.
[[xfce]]
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=== Xfce
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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]]
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=== 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:
....
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"
####################################
EndSection
....
For more information on tweaking `xorg.conf.d` files, please read the man page:
[source,bash]
[…]$ man xorg.conf