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Act on track/touchpads to claims single tap as single click

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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 15.10(Gnome)

I upgraded my ubuntu gnome installation to 15.10 and everything is kinda good except for the touchpad single-tap functionality. Single-tap-to-click is not working. And I have tried all possible solutions like editing synaptics.conf file. One thing…
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 - Tap to click is not reliable anymore

I upgraded from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 and realized tap to click is not reliable anymore. Approximately 40% of taps simply does nothing. Did you notice similar issues? Is it possible to fix this? (I use lenovo l450). Edit: I use xorg session.
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Enable tap to click Kubuntu

I just installed Kubuntu on my Dell XPS 15 9570. Everything is working fine, except for tap to click on the touchpad. I can activate the option in the settings but this has no effect.
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Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click is not working in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Gnome)

I upgraded my ubuntu gnome installation to 16.04.3 LTS (GNOME) and everything is kinda good except for the touchpad single-tap functionality. Single-tap-to-click is not working. Edit (by cipricus - in order to avoid creating a duplicate question):…
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Logitech K400+ not doing Tap-to-Click on Trackpad

Trackpad on Logitech K400+ wireless keyboard no longer clicks anything when the trackpad is tapped... (tap to click). This used to work but suddenly stopped. Not sure if this was a mix of Ubuntu + kernel update or not, but didn't work after…
Rob Hendricks
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Restore tap to click in Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell XPS 13

This question follows on from this one about natural scrolling. Before I made changes, I could simply tap on the trackpad of my Dell XPS 13 to generate a click. Now I have to explicitly click, which requires extra effort. I would like to restore…
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How to disable tap to click in Lubuntu 13.10

Tap to click is usually the first thing I disable when I have installed a new OS, but this time I couldn't get rid of it. In earlier versions of Lubuntu, I was able to disable it by writing @synclient MaxTapTime=0 to…
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Disable three finger tap of Apple Trackpad in Ubuntu 12.04

I have configured Apple trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04 in xorg.conf as suggested here. I have also added "TapButton3" "0" but it does not disable three finger tap. My Question How to disable three finger tap of trackpad in xorg.conf?
Gaurav Agarwal
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Ubuntu 13.04 + touch screen: points, though doesn't click

Works well with nautilus and settings. Other places: I tap, cursor points, no further action. Guide me. I need it. What to do?
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how do I turn off tap-to-click for logitech k400r wireless keyboard with touchpad?

I'm running kubuntu 12.04 i386 on lenovo thinkcenter. There are no options for the touchpad under "Input Devices". Is there anyway to turn off tap-to-click by editing some text file?
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What external touchpads work on Ubuntu?

By "work", I mean recognizing clicks, taps, multi-finger clicks, multi-finger taps, simultaneous horizontal and vertical scroll using 2 fingers, pinch to unzoom and vice versa. By multi-finger, I think 3 fingers recognition is enough. 4 is a bonus…
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touchpad doesn't tap-click at login screen

On every desktop environment, except for the login screen of Ubuntu 12.04, I can just tap the touchpad of my laptop to simulate a mouseclick. Why doesn't it work anymore at the login screen?
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Tap-to-click not working in Ubuntu 12.04

I edited Xorg.conf as suggested here to control the speed of pointer movement for Apple Magic Trackpad in 12.04.1 and it works. But now the trackpad does not recognize tap-to-click. I read the man page for synaptics but since I am a noob could make…
Gaurav Agarwal
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libinput: How to map different Tappings to Buttons, TappingButtonMap has no effect

My touchdpad has two buttons (not tapping) and I used to configure two-finger tapping as middle click with synclient. Now, with ubuntu-gnome 16.10, libinput is the way to go and I tried to achieve the same without success until now. I tried the…
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Tap-to-click not working in Lubuntu 14.04

I have quite a strange problem. My sister upgraded her Lubuntu yesterday to 14.04 and everything went alright. After some reboots though (she said she hadn't done anything except for messing with the look and feel settings) the tap-to-click on the…
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