Touchpad behavior changed drasticall - tap-to-click won't work, and scrolling is less effective

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I'm running Cinnamon on Debian Testing on a Dell XPS 13.

Sometime over the last couple days, touchpad operation changed quite significantly:

tap-to-click stopped working entirely (I've tried toggling it in the settings, no effect)
scrolling is a lot less "effective". Used to be I'd swipe and the page would scroll for a while after my fingers left the touchpad. Now it scrolls a lot less.

Does anyone know what may have caused this, and how I can fix it?

ted · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-10 18:55:22Z

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I had the same problem, and I found the fix here:

I'm under Debian x86_64 Stretch with Cinnamon

answered May 10, 2016 at 18:55

ted

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Thank you! Following these steps solved my issue :) Could you please edit to put the solution into your answer (lest it succumb to eventual link-rot, etc)?
– Mala
May 13, 2016 at 2:35
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The solution linked to suggests doing the following (as root): mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d followed by cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Worked for me.
– Mala
May 13, 2016 at 17:08

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