Hi everyone, I’m having several problems with openSUSE 11.4 and this is just one of them. Every single time I boot into openSUSE I have to go to the hardfware section under “Control Panel” or whatever it’s called. I have to enable tap to click everytime I boot into openSUSE - in other words it does not save the settings when I log out or shutdown. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? Why doesn’t is save the system changes I make? This is on my Laptop… On my PC I can’t get openSUSE to work at all because when I boot into it after I’ve installed it, it sets the screen resolution to 1920 x 1080 @ 112Hz which is way too high for my monitor to support so I can’t see anything at all… Any ideas on how to fix these two problems, especially the touchpad problem?
It is possible that you are confused by the fact that touchpad tapping is disabled by default at the system level; once you enter the desktop, your settings will not have been lost but they are not system settings; they only apply to the desktop. To enable touchpad tapping at the system level, add
Option “TapButton1” “1”
to 50-synatics.conf
AFAIK you should be able to use YaST in command line mode to configure the monitor.
— /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf 2011-02-19 01:29:03.000000000 +0100
+++ 50-synaptics.conf 2011-11-10 08:51:55.210402375 +0100
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
MatchIsTouchpad “on”
MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0”
-
Option "TapButton1" "1"
EndSection
+
Works like a charm 
Bug 729488 Submitted
Easier and less intrusive:
synclient TapButton1=1
You can add that command to your startup script (the exact place depends on the session manager you use).