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= How to enable touchpad click
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Ankur Sinha; Caleb McKee; Petr Bokoc
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:revnumber: F38
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:revdate: 2023-05-08
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:category: Administration
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:tags: How-to, Workstation, Touchpad
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[[scope]]
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== Scope
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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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[NOTE]
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====
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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.
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====
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[[desktop-configurations]]
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== Desktop configurations
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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].
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[[gnome]]
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=== GNOME
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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]
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[[kde-plasma-workspaces]]
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=== KDE Plasma Workspaces
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1. Enter KDE System Settings
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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.)
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3. Select the Tapping tab
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4. Check the "Tap to click" checkbox
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5. Set some tapping actions under "Buttons" below, the default is to do
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nothing
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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.
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// link:#Other_window_managers[Other window managers] can also be used.
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[[xfce]]
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=== Xfce
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1. Enter Xfce Settings
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2. Select the Mouse and Touchpad settings
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3. If necessary, select your Touchpad device
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4. In the General section, enable "Tap touchpad to click"
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[[other-window-managers]]
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=== Other window managers
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Create a new file named `/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-synaptics-overrides.conf`.
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Then, in your favourite text editor, modify this file as such:
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Section "InputClass"
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Identifier "touchpad overrides"
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# This makes this snippet apply to any device with the "synaptics" driver
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# assigned
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MatchDriver "synaptics"
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####################################
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## The lines that you need to add ##
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# Enable left mouse button by tapping
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Option "TapButton1" "1"
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# Enable vertical scrolling
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Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
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# Enable right mouse button by tapping lower right corner
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Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
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####################################
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EndSection
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....
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For more information on tweaking `xorg.conf.d` files, please read the man page:
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[source,bash]
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[…]$ man xorg.conf
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