I noticed that the Fedora Linux with KDE desktop, has reasonably poor support for laptop touchpad adjustment. For example, the KDE > System Settings > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse options will not be able to enable vertical scrolling and touchpad tapping. So I decided to write this short guide, howto enable Touchpad vertical scrolling and tapping from command line without any GUI.
Enable Laptop Touchpad Vertical Scrolling
Simply write following on command line:
synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
Enable Laptop Touchpad Tapping
Simply write following on command line:
synclient TapButton1=1
Make Previous Options Permanent
Change to root User
su -
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sudo -i
Create a configuration file
Copy /usr/share/hal/fdi/policies/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi example file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy
cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy
Add following lines to configuration file
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Full configuration file looks like this
synaptics
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