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Anyone figure out a quick fix to enable touchpads to be able to tap to click in GDM? I found this forum for Fedora:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/67749/how-to-enable-touchpad-tap-to-click-at-logon-screen-on-fedora-22/
But none of those ideas worked on Tumbleweed. This seems like something that should “just work” in my opinion.

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On Tue 29 Sep 2015 01:46:04 AM CDT, Truthforger wrote:

Anyone figure out a quick fix to enable touchpads to be able to tap to
click in GDM? I found this forum for Fedora:
http://tinyurl.com/qju5rxu
But none of those ideas worked on Tumbleweed. This seems like something
that should “just work” in my opinion.

Hi
It should work as it’s enabled by default since 12.1?

Does the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf file exist? Or do you
have an alps/other device?

I checked in Leap and it works fine for me on a HP ProBook with
synaptics.

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Hmmm that seems to indicate something else is going on. I have an HP Envy 15t with a Synaptics Touchpad. Tap to click works fine once I’m logged into Gnome Shell (after enabling it). Here is my 50-synaptics.conf:

Section "InputClass"        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option	"HorizEdgeScroll" "off"
# enable tap-to-click as default (bnc#722457)
	Option "TapButton1" "1"
	Option "TapButton3" "2"
	Option "TapButton2" "3"
EndSection


Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection


# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection


# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection