Lubuntu 18.10 How to activate tap to click

Question

I'm using a fresh install 18.10 on my Samsung Serie 5 Ultra 530U3C A0L notebook.

I really enjoy the Linux experience so far and everything I need works out of the box for me. The only thing missing is tap to click. How can I activate it? I looked for an option in lxqt but couldnt find one. I googled a bit and found this: synclient tapbutton1=1 but typing this in the terminal did not help.

score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 06 '22 at 13:46

this works for me
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libinput#Touchpad_configuration

create:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

content:

Section "InputClass"   
  Identifier "touchpad"  
  Driver "libinput"  
  MatchIsTouchpad "on"  
  Option "Tapping" "on"  
EndSection

and finally

reboot

EDIT 06/07/2022 works in Lubuntu 22.04 (presumably works from Lubuntu 20.04 onwards):

Open "Keyboard and Mouse Settings"
Scroll down to "Mouse and Touchpad"
Click on "Device:", select your touchpad (e.g., SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad)
Check "Tap to click"
Select "Apply"

Screenshot final

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score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 24 '19 at 23:57

Activating tap-to-click with xinput via command line

Find your device id (in my case 13 bellow ):

# xinput list

Look for:

↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad   id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]

Find the "Tapping" desired option code (in my case 283 bellow):
```
# xinput list-props 13
```
Look for:
```
libinput Tapping Enabled (283): 0
```
Activate it with "1" using:
```
# xinput set-prop 13 283 1
```

List props once more to confirm:

# xinput list-props 13

Look for:

libinput Tapping Enabled (283): 1

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '21 at 14:05

2

I don't know if that was already available in 18.10, but in 20.04 there is a setting for that (see Touchpad > Tap to Click):

answered Feb 21 '21 at 14:05

Willi Mentzel

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Lubuntu 18.10 How to activate tap to click

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