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Yofre Ormaza
Yofre Ormaza

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How to enable touchpad taps on Arch Linux?

touchpad taps

๐Ÿ’ก All of the following will be executed from the system terminal

1. Install libinput

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2. Create the 40-libinput.conf file

You can use Vim or another terminal text editor like nano or neovim, in my case I will use Vim.

  1. sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

  2. Add the following instructions:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingDrag" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm"
EndSection
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3. Save the file and exit Vim (:wq)

4. Reboot your computer

That's it! ๐Ÿ’ป

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matin nemati โ€ข

Thank you. sufficient and helpful.

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Zobair Najdaoui โ€ข

thanks, it's really easy and simple and that save my time.

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