Need help with a minor niggle. I like to use use a two finger tap to emulate a right mouse click which I set-up in the touch-pad system settings. For some unknown reason this setting isn’t getting saved and needs to set-up each time I use the laptop. This has only happened since installing openSUSE 12.2 Any help appreciated
Acer Aspire5535 openSUSE 12.2 KDE 4.10
On 02/11/2013 03:06 PM, MadVic wrote:
>
> Need help with a minor niggle. I like to use use a two finger tap to
> emulate a right mouse click which I set-up in the touch-pad system
> settings. For some unknown reason this setting isn’t getting saved and
> needs to set-up each time I use the laptop. This has only happened since
> installing openSUSE 12.2 Any help appreciated
>
> Acer Aspire5535 openSUSE 12.2 KDE 4.10
If you enter the new settings with synclient, they can be entered as options in
the file /etc/X11/xorg.d.conf/50-synaptics.conf. At least that is where I had to
go to disable the ******* tapping. It goes in the Section “InputClass” with
Identifier “touchpad catchall”.
Cheers lwfinger,
My problem is no more. After changing the value from 2 to 3 in Option “TapButton2” under Section “InputClass” in 50-synaptics.conf my two finger tap for a right mouse click is now permanent again.
Perhaps this was a permissions glitch has using the KDE system settings and the synclient TapButton2=3 command (from konsole) was only effective for the current kde session and were not run as root. When installing new versions of SUSE I always keep my /home folder on a separate partition perhaps this caused the problem, although its always been error free in the past.
Anyhow your help pointed me in the right direction and I’ve learnt a little more under the hood linux stuff. Thanks again mate job well done!!!