How to enable touchpad scrolling and tapping in Debian Wheezy KDE?
EDIT: I just got tapping working on my Debian AlpsPS/2 touichpad with synclient
:
synclient TapButton1=1
I am not an expert on this but found an old synaptics.conf
file that I was using on a different laptop:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "MaxTapTime" "300"
Driver "synaptics"
EndSection
So, try adding catchall
to the Identifier and changing MatchIsTouchpad
to on
from yes
. Not sure if that will help but should be worth a try.
Another thing you can try is installing tpconfig
:
sudo apt-get install tpconfig
That should give you a GUI to enable taps with:
sudo tpconfig --tapmode=1
Though I just tried this on my system and it does not seem to work
Have you tried synaptiks
? It's a simple GUI program that always solved any problems with my touchpad configuration.
To install:
sudo apt-get install kde-config-touchpad
Then you should be able to run it with
synaptiks && synaptiks
(the first synaptiks
only puts the icon in the system tray and doesn't launch the GUI for some reason)