GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 765879
No "tap to click" checkbox on Wayland
Last modified: 2016-07-29 14:18:29 UTC
When running GNOME on Wayland with a touchpad, the "Mouse" section in gnome-control-center doesn't show a checkbox for enabling the "tap to click" behavior. The user must enable it in dconf (org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad.tap-to-click). All the other touchpad-related options are available. When using X11, the tap-to-click checkbox is present, which is why I think this is a bug. I can't believe that there are so few tap-to-click users that this option is not necessary. Clicking with the regular buttons is so annoying that I wouldn't stay long on a system that doesn't provide it. Luckily, the fix seems to be trivial (but I don't have the time to learn how to download, build, modify and patch the GNOME code), as the option is in dconf.
What's the output of: sudo libinput-list-devices
Created attachment 327114 [details] The output of `sudo libinput-list-devices`.
Created attachment 327145 [details] [review] mouse: Make touchpad capability checking on wayland work as intended We need to set the out variables otherwise the intended semantics as documented by the comment aren't enforced.
Review of attachment 327145 [details] [review]: Yep.
Pushed to master and gnome-3-20 Attachment 327145 [details] pushed as 9b5329f - mouse: Make touchpad capability checking on wayland work as intended
*** Bug 767006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Any ETA for when this bugfix will be packaged into a release of GNOME? I'm running GNOME 3.20.2, and this bug is still present. However, 3.20.2 is apparently the last version of the 3.20 branch, according to https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2016-May/msg00001.html. Does that mean that this bugfix will never reach 3.20 users?
(In reply to Daniel Jonsson from comment #7) > Any ETA for when this bugfix will be packaged into a release of GNOME? I'm > running GNOME 3.20.2, and this bug is still present. However, 3.20.2 is > apparently the last version of the 3.20 branch, according to > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2016-May/msg00001.html. > Does that mean that this bugfix will never reach 3.20 users? It's on the branch, just didn't see a release. You can always ask your distribution to pick up the change if you think this isn't going fast enough...
*** Bug 735718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***