Touchpad tap-and-drag

[Nigel Ridley]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> Ok, I give. I need help. Been banging my head on this for two hours and 
> I *almost* have exactly what I want. That last two feet of the mile is 
> killing me though. I want tap-and-drag on my laptop. I have everything 
> else working but that.
> 
> I did find one reference that made it work at 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/23251 
> but it was bitter sweet. I was able to tap-and-drag at the cost of a 
> faster mouse cursor, scrolling and coasting. Not much of a boon.
> 
> Has anybody had success with this?
> 
> I am running Feisty on a Dell Inspiron 600M and here are the pertinent 
> parts of my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
>   Driver "synaptics"
>   Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>   Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>   Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>   Option "MinSpeed" "0.8"
>   Option "MaxSpeed" "2.0"
>   Option "AccelFactor" "0.05"
>   Option "MaxTapMove" "20"
>   Option "MaxTapTime" "100"
>   Option "TapButton1" "1"
>   Option "TapButton2" "3"
>   Option "TabButton3" "2"
>   Option "LockedDrags" "0"
>   Option "CoastingSpeed" "1.0"
>   Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>   Identifier "Default Layout"
>   screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
>   InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
>   InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
>   InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
>   Option      "AIGLX"  "true"
> EndSection
> 
> 

Is that a typo:   Option "TabButton3" "2"
Should it not be: Option "TapButton3" "2"

Blessings,

Nigel

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