So i got a new laptop, a Dell Inspiron 15 3535 and quickly installed EOS on it. When i boot to the live ISO with KDE, the touchpad tap to click function works as it should (one tap for a left click, two-finger tap for a right click), but after i installed EOS with Mate that does not work. the touchpad moves the mouse cursor but the tap to click function does not.
i found this article and it did work once, but seems that after a reboot, the touchpad will grab another device id, it is never the same, so writing a startup script doesn’t work.
so i reinstalled EOS and tried another DE, went with Gnome and the touchpad worked as is should, just like with KDE
then i tried LinuxMint with Mate and also the touchpad works as expected. so it seems that only EOS with Mate has this issue? is this a bug?
Device IDs can change. Usually during kernel updates or if the touchpad support packages update (esp new features in a new version). But does it change every reboot?
MATE likely still is on X11 so the instructions should hold. KDE and Gnome are in Wayland and my 2022 descriptions on setting up with X11 won’t really apply.
Likely the EOS MATE, that’s a contributor project, last I recall, didn’t take into account the setup of the touchpad at install time.
hey Andrew, thanks for replying, yeah it seems to change every reboot, which kind of makes sense, but then again doesnt LOL
i also installed plain debian with mate and the tap to click function worked there too, so my next step is going to install pure Arch and Mate and see what happens. if that works, i will file a bug report with EOS
