On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 10:36 +0100, Francois Gouget wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set up tap-to-click in gdm3? > > > > The goal is to be able to tap on the trackpad to perform the swipe > > gesture that's now required to get the list of users, and tap again > > to > > to pick the user to log in as. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Enabling_tap-to-click > > Haven't tried it myself, so let us know if it works!
It did not work :-( I my regular account a grep for 'tap-to-click' in ~/.conf does find a match in ~/.conf/dconf/user. So setting this option through dconf or gsettings is probably the right basic idea. On Debian the gdm3 user is called 'Debian-gdm' and its shell is '/bin/false'. So I su-ed to root and ran the following command: sudo -u Debian-gdm gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click true But I got the following error: (process:26300): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line 'dbus-launch --autolaunch=f856067f8571c63f807f753100000009 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process exited with code 1 I'm not sure where to go from there. ~/.conf/dconf/user is a binary file so editing it directly is out. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Cahn's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.
