After upgrading to Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20 I have found that if I tap my touchpad it clicks which is something I do not want due to a faulty touchpad, previously I was able to disable this through the gnome-control-center
, but seemingly there is no way to do this any more through there, so how do I do it? Also, even though it is set to false
in gsettings
and the dconf-editor
seemingly for some reason somewhere in the system it is also set to true
as it is behaving as such. I am also unable to set natural scrolling or any of the other touchpad settings seemingly, why not?
2 Answers
To be able to set these settings through Terminal or through the gnome-control-center
you need to make sure that you have xserver-xorg-input-libinput
installed. It appears to be a bug that it is not already installed by default, in order to install simply run:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-libinput
After doing so and then logging out and in again you will find new settings in the gnome-control-center
's Mouse & Touchpad settings:
You should now also be able to set the touchpad settings through the dconf-editor
and gsettings
in Terminal.
Related: LP Bug #1586657
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You probably do not need to, you should be able to set
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad click-method none
anyway. In the same key, other settings are stored. May 29, 2016 at 6:45 -
@JacobVlijm: I tested that already, if you set any of the settings through
gsettings
ordconf-editor
it has no effect whatsoever unless you install that package. It's a bug, I've even linked the relevant bug report. It should work as you said, but it doesn't without that package.– user364819May 29, 2016 at 11:15 -
I see you've posted duplicate answers. One of these is a dupe, therefore. Care to flag :)? Jun 8, 2016 at 23:13
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@RolandiXor: I voted to close the other one as a duplicate of this one because if you look at the question this one is more broad and the other one fits into it.– user364819Jun 9, 2016 at 9:55
I just installed gnome-control-center in Unity, and the tap-to-click check box is there, just to the left of two finger scroll and natural scrolling.
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What version of the
gnome-control-center
did you install? There is no such option in the GNOME 3.20 one that I am running.– user364819May 28, 2016 at 15:58 -
Hmm... I guess I just installed the "default" one. sudo apt install gnome-control-center May 28, 2016 at 16:13
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Yes, I know, it's the one the standard repos, but they do not have the latest one, if you want the latest you have to add the Ubuntu GNOME (semi-unofficial, but maintained by those who maintain all of Ubuntu GNOME)
ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
andppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
PPAs.– user364819May 28, 2016 at 16:29 -
I understand that this should work on Unity too, so if you really want to help you can install it, but I think that this has to do not with the
gnome-control-center
, but rather somegsettings
bug because it's set manually to the correct thing, but something seems to be ignore that.– user364819May 28, 2016 at 16:30 -
The problem has now been solved (as you can see by my answer) so please delete your answer.– user364819May 28, 2016 at 17:31
xinput
terminal command.xorg-synaptics
. Myapt-cache search xorg-synaptics
returns nothing. I have all repositories enabled and sources list updatedxserver-xorg-input-synaptics
. It is installed by default. Butlibinput
overrides it if installed.