how how to make laptop touchpad tap work in Fedora 16

[narayans]

I just installed Fedora 16 and I see that the touchpad tapping does not have any effect on any icon or app shortcut.
I have a Dell Laptop.I also have Ubuntu 11.10 on same machine on which touchpad tapping works like a charm.
On Googling I came across
http://www.google.co.in/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=how+to+enable+touchpad+in+fedora+16
as per following
http://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2011...dm3-fedora-16/

and edited my /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
the original file was

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

after modification the file is

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

The hardware is correct as I have Ubuntu also running on the same machine and touchpad tap works over there.
The touch pad is working what I want is tapping a touch pad to be active.How can I achieve this?

[Jusko]

Add to session autostart:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient TapButton1=1

Restart and tapping and touchpad scrolling works like a charm (tested on my laptop).

[narayans]

Which file should I add these lines do you mean /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to add these lines?

[Dangermouse]

Just out of interest i assume you have tried the keyboard shortcut (fn etc) and gsettings to turn it on to start with??????

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true

[narayans]

Just out of interest i assume you have tried the keyboard shortcut (fn etc) and gsettings to turn it on to start with??????

Well I do not have any idea of what you are saying.I just saw my touchpad tap not working on Fedora it used to work on Ubuntu I did not had to do any thing extra to make it work but in Fedora I have no idea what to do with it and this has made my life difficult.A software is some thing which makes users work easy.If I have to do Google and remember commands like you mention I would better be off with not using Fedora.

I actually am not any fan of Fedora it just happened that for some reason I am testing Fedora on this machine otherwise I do not wish to screw up my time by posting on forums as how to make wireless work,how to make touch pad work or how to disable firewall on Fedora. I want to mention that I am a user who has used Linux since past 6-7 years and my journey with Linux started with Fedora 3 and I discontinued after Fedora 6, with this post of mine I can recall those days of posting on Forums making wireless working,some times Lan working or dot dot dot similar kind of stuff.Where you rather than being able to work in a production environment are first forced to use an unwanted desolated system and then make your life worse by trying to work on Fedora.As soon as my project finishes I will dump Fedora from my laptop and will switch back to Ubuntu.

[Jusko]

Add to session autostart:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient TapButton1=1

Restart and tapping and touchpad scrolling works like a charm (tested on my laptop).

This lines may be pasted to terminal but changes are lost after reboot. That's why this lines must be added to autostart applications of graphical environment (you may paste lines to autostart file somwhere in /home or find GUI for that). I know only XFCE and LXDE, so i can't help with GNOME or KDE (XFCE have GUI and KDE too, on LXDE i had to create autostart file). Ubuntu have this modification out of the box i think and it's good distro, but Fedora have newer packages (ex. Fedora 16 kernel 3.2.2 when on Ubuntu 11.10 is 3.0.x).

[narayans]

This lines may be pasted to terminal but changes are lost after reboot. That's why this lines must be added to autostart applications of graphical environment (you may paste lines to autostart file somwhere in /home or find GUI for that). I know only XFCE and LXDE, so i can't help with GNOME or KDE (XFCE have GUI and KDE too, on LXDE i had to create autostart file).
3.0.x).

I appreciate your attempt to help me out here and thanks for that but

Ubuntu have this modification out of the box i think and it's good distro, but Fedora have newer packages (ex. Fedora 16 kernel 3.2.2 when on Ubuntu 11.10 is 3.0.x).

your sympathy for Fedora will not change my opinion about Fedora.I do not want to be testing latest buggy updates of Fedora in a production environment.There are n number of other things to do on this machine than trying to find out how to make it work if you see I am a new member to this forum and from past 2-3 days I have been posting very basic things such as how to make wireless work,how does touchpad tapping work on Fedora, how can I enable ssh with a firewall on my machine etc etc....when I should actually be working and shall have given some result to my supervisor I am still struggling to setup a production environment.
Irrespective of what latest things Fedora offers if it does not works for me it is a piece of crap.

[hadrons123]

If you had followed Dangermouse idea with configuration editor, you might have had a working touchpad.
If that's so hard then I would say you could simply go to the settings menu in the top right hand corner and reach for the mouse >touchpad menus under it to enable it.

I could sense your frustration and you are not happy with fedora.Don't use fedora if you don't like it.Angry comments about the distro in the forums is not going to help your cause.After using linux for 6-7 years, its hard to believe how you couldn't get your touchpad working,unless you messed it up so badly.Sure its not a hardware fault or a matter of whether its supported in Linux.

Probably Ubuntu was overworking so much that it did not allow you learn a lot of stuff.Its not your fault.FYI, More fedora based Red-hat systems are used in production environment than ubuntu.