GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 608618
enable tapping/disable tapping don´t work
Last modified: 2018-08-17 18:37:06 UTC
I was try 1.5.0 and for my Asus F5R notebook with touchpad still didn´t work enable tapping. In 1.5.0 is only checkbox "Disable tapping", so it is enable? No, I must go (in GNOME) System->Options->Touchpad (it is GSynaptics) and there I must enable checkbox "Enable tapping". When I have in this touchpad preferences enabled tapping, disable tapping in your app work. I try removing GSynaptics when I unchecked "Enable tapping" and tapping don´t work- can´t setup with your app.
Jaroslav, thank you for your report. But I can not understand exactly what you did. First, do not use GSynaptics, please. GSynaptics has been obsoleted. I do not confirm that GPDS does work with GSynaptics. To clarify your issue, please paste the result of xinput list-props while you enable tapping.
I can see this issue also and there are dozens of users who reported it in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572956 Simply I did not find way to enable tapping in GPDS, the checkbox does not seem to have any effect. Is there something else besides xinput list-props what you want to see? I will try to get the output tomorrow (I'm currently not at the notebook with touchpad).
I guess tapping time and tapping move values are too short for users. Please set these values more long.
Comment from Debian BTS: I also suffer from this problem, and actually horizontal scrolling does not work either. After fiddling some more, I discovered that upon login the TapButton1 (as indicated by synclient) was oddly set to 0 and that HorizEdgeScroll was set to 0. Setting them both manually to 1 makes gpointing-device-settings work again. So apparently the problem is not in gpointing-device-settings but in some other thingy that sets/chooses the default value of various options and sets some options that gpointing-device-settings never even touches (such as TapButton1). The reason I think the problem is not in gpointing-device-settings is that even if I deinstall it, logout and log back in, the problemativ TapButton1 setting remains.
Maybe, gnome-mouse-property does disable tapping and edge scrolling. I am thinking of removing these features from GPDS.
Michal, do you have any news on this bug?
Well using gnome-mouse-properties does indeed enable tapping. However I'd prefer to be able to do all settings in GPDS than needing to go to other dialog which does not provide most of options I want to configure.
Created attachment 156879 [details] xinput list-props output Attaching output of xinput list-props under various conditions - tapping disabled, tapping enabled (in GPDS) and enabled in gnome-mouse-properties. The problem seems to be in fact that GPDS does not set Tap Action.
GPointingDeviceSettings is not under active development anymore and saw its last non-cosmetic code changes in 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gpointing-device-settings/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.