How to enable touchpad taps on Arch Linux?
Yofre Ormaza

Yofre Ormaza @yofreormaza

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How to enable touchpad taps on Arch Linux?

Publish Date: Aug 14 '24
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touchpad taps

💡 All of the following will be executed from the system terminal

1. Install libinput

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2. Create the 40-libinput.conf file

You can use Vim or another terminal text editor like nano or neovim, in my case I will use Vim.

  1. sudo vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

  2. Add the following instructions:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "libinput"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingDrag" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm"
EndSection
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3. Save the file and exit Vim (:wq)

4. Reboot your computer

That's it! 💻

Comments 2 total

  • Zobair Najdaoui
    Zobair NajdaouiNov 19, 2024

    thanks, it's really easy and simple and that save my time.

  • matin nemati
    matin nematiJan 29, 2025

    Thank you. sufficient and helpful.

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