I was able to fix it but by installing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics On Jun 28, 2017 22:20, "Dan Ritter" <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 05:59:58PM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > On 28-06-17, Apurv Jyotirmay wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I use a Synaptics touchpad on my laptop. Normally on other > distributions > > > (Xubuntu, Manjaro, etc.), the mouse settings area displayed a tab to > > > configure touchpad settings, but on Debian 9 that particular tab is > > > missing, and because of it I'm unable to activate features like "tap to > > > click", which is an inconvenience. Can anyone help me find a solution > to > > > this issue? I'm new to Debian and not really familiar with the way > driver > > > support works. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Apurv > > > > In Gnome, situation like that was solved by installing > > xserver-xorg-input-libinput instead of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, if > > I remember it correctly. Hope that it can help you. > > You can also run synclient to adjust settings. There's a section > on it in the Debian wiki. > > -dsr- > >
