when researching this i found https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/tapping/ and https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/libinput/commit/?id=2219c12c3aa45b80f235e761e87c17fb9ec70eae
so it seems that Mir needs to do something to enable it again -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mir in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1603358 Title: no tap to click in unity8 Status in Mir: New Status in mir package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: trying out the unity8 session in xenial there is no way to make tap to click on a touchpad work in unity8 ... clicking the touchpad button works fine but means you need both hands for click+drag which breaks the workflow enough to make the touchpad rather unusable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1603358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
