As in a lot of other bug reports, tap-to-click is not enabled by default any more in various system components. This one is about GDM, which has no GUI configuration mechanism for changing this (or any other) setting. Tap-to-click has been enabled everywhere in MGA since forever. If some upstream genius has suddenly taken a dislike to it, I think we should enable it by default everywhere and see what arguments, if any, anyone can advance for reverting the change.
Assigning to all packagers collectively. Please be aware that a decision about which default behaviour we want, needs to be taken. See the "[RFC] Tap-to-click default." thread on dev ml.
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
The "no way to set it" is still a valid issue, of course ;-)
10 seconds with Google found: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266586/gdm-how-to-enable-touchpad-tap-to-click I don't have access to a laptop at present and have no desire to change this default when I do. So have not tested if that works.
CC: (none) => jim
I have had to struggle through this issue a little while ago but I have been too busy to pass on my information. Sorry. I installed Mageia 5 on a tablet so I had to use "tap to click" to log in unless I wanted to use an external keyboard or mouse. There were 2 separate issues for me: To login, the display manager needed to support 'tap to click" so after logging in using a keyboard, I ran: sudo -u gdm dconf-editor and activated it. This only activated "tap to click" for the login screen, nothing else. I see no reason the disable the setting. I tried to find how to activate it by default but was unsuccessful. The only changes I could find by activating the feature were changes to the binary file /var/lib/gdm/.config/dconf/user To activate "tap to click" for the desktop varies depending on the desktop and I believe should be set by an individual once they have logged in. Also comment 3 doesn't apply to Mageia as we don't have org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad in our schema
CC: (none) => nic
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16575
Is it possible to have different default behaviour for touchpads than for tablets? I think the problem with accidentally touching the touchpad, comes mainly from having to reach over it to type. Since the keyboard on a tablet is on the nearest part of it, there is no "reaching over" anything, so no risk of accidentally touching something.
(In reply to James Kerr from comment #3) > 10 seconds with Google found: > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266586/gdm-how-to-enable-touchpad- > tap-to-click > > I don't have access to a laptop at present and have no desire to change this > default when I do. So have not tested if that works. Thanks for your response, but you can't honestly believe that any end user is going to bother to find this workaround or consider himself competent to implement it if he does.
Please see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18972 . The problem here *does* seem to be inherent to GDM because applying the workaround in bug#18972 enables tap-to-click in SDDM but *not* in GDM. GDM appears not to honor /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directives.
Unless of course the problem for things using GTK+3 was in GTK+3 all along...
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