Tap-to-click on laptop not working in 20.04

[cbraxton]

I booted up on Lubuntu 20.04 to try it on my old Asus X200MA laptop and found that tapping on the keypad to generate a mouse click does not work. (It works on the currently installed Xubuntu 14.04 as well as Ubuntu Mate 20.04.)

I don’t see a relevant option in the mouse settings. I’d really like to use Lubuntu on this machine because performance is very good despite the relatively low-spec hardware. Is there a way to get the tap function to work? (I also posted about this problem on ubuntuforums.org.)

[kc2bez]

Admittedly the tap to click setting is easy to miss due to the strange naming. This is a screenshot from our manual page for the keyboard and mouse

To tap the touchpad once to register a left click check the “Single click to activate items” checkbox.

Note: this setting needs to be applied to each device you want this active on. You can select the device in the dropdown menu.

[cbraxton]

Thanks, that did the trick! Looks like there have been some changes since Lubuntu 18.04, which I have running on another old laptop, and I really need to RTFM!

[kc2bez]

I didn’t intend to make it sound like that but we do have a fantastic manual.