In Lubuntu, Synaptics touchpad double-tap to open works badly
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In Lubuntu Saucy, installed on a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop with a Synaptics touchpad, double-tap to open a file or folder works sporadically/
Via synclient, I played with the FingerLow, FingerHigh and MaxDoubleTapTime settings, but did not arrive at something that worked.
I did eventually discover that a *triple-tap* reliably yields the behavior I would expect from a double-tap.
Using Lubuntu Live discs, I found the same behavior on a Trusty Daily Build, and on older versions at least back to Lubuntu 12.10.
I also booted a Lubuntu Trusty Build Live disc on an HP Elitebook 8530p with a Synaptics touchpad and also found the bad behavior there, though somewhat lessened. Perhaps due to the faster Core 2 Duo processor?
Booting an *Ubuntu* Saucy Live disc on the Lenovo, double-tap worked as expected. Double-tap also worked as expected on this machine under Windows Vista.
On another laptop with Lubuntu Saucy but an ALPS touchpad, double-tap worked as expected.
In accord with http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: xserver-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 28 14:58:52 2014
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: saucy
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-19 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: LENOVO 892201U
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xserver-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/30/07
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 63ET62WW
dmi.board.name: CAPELL VALLEY(NAPA) CRB
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 892201U
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1ubuntu1
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
version.
xserver.bootTime: Fri Feb 28 12:32:18 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
input Video Bus KEYBOARD, id 7
input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 8
input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 9
input SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad TOUCHPAD, id 10
xserver.errors:
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
product id 9297
vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.14.
| John Hupp (john.hupp) wrote | #1 |
| John Hupp (john.hupp) wrote | #2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| tags: |
added: quantal trusty removed: double-tap touchpad |
It seems that the synclient MaxDoubleTapTime setting (or setting MaxDoubleTapTime in /usr/share/
Instead, the Synaptics touchpad is responding to a GTK2 setting.in which the default double-tap time is 250 ms.
To change that per-user (and there is probably a global setting somewhere -- wish I knew where), create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the content like:
though values up to 1000 are sometimes suggested.
Source: http://