Synaptiks

[anjpr]

I removed kcm touchpad and installed synaptiks. However, when I try to open synaptiks I get the following message: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/synaptiks'. I have to reinstall kcm touchpad to have toucpad control, but my preferred application is synaptiks. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

[spiky001]

Hi

What dose /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf look like

[anjpr]

-bash: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf: Permission denied

[Ken-Bergen]

You want to look at the file not run it, so

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cat   /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

would be more appropriate.
If you still get permission denied try as root.

[spiky001]

Have you got x11-driver-input-synaptics installed

[doktor5000]

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# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on
# non-synaptics clickpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
#       To disable the bottom edge area so the buttons only work as buttons,
#       not for movement, set the AreaBottomEdge
#       Option "AreaBottomEdge" "82%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.                                                                                                                   
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.                                                                                                                               
Section "InputClass"                                                                                                                                                           
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

[anjpr]

x11-driver-input-synaptics is installed.

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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xinput -list

Just tried synaptiks here, and it runs just fine, without removing kcm_touchpad.