Hi,
I can’t use the touch pad in my laptop for clicking in the touch surface at the login screen. (and not the buttons)
This was even a case in my desktop. but i solved it by choosing enable touchpad click option from control centre > mouse preference > touchpad.
But how to enable touchpad click at the login screen?
please help
Thankyou.
I take it that you are talking about tapping.
The tapping settings should be individual. Until you have logged in, the system does not know which user’s settings should apply.
I, for one, am grateful that opensuse gets this right. Windows gets it wrong. When I have a new Windows computer, it usually comes so that you have to go through some system configuration on the first boot. If it has a touchpad, I find that I finish up with a badly mangled initial configuration. Then, once I have reached the point where I can disable tapping, I can try to go back and fix it.
So, okay, maybe you like tapping. But for those of us who are a bit more ham fisted, tapping is a disaster waiting to happen. I appreciate the opensuse defaults, where tapping is disabled unless the user specifically enables it.
If you add the line
Option “TapButton1” “1”
to 50-synaptocs.conf, you will be able to tap at login on most touchpads. According to other threads in this forum, some laptops do not respond to this setting but it has worked for many people.