I have come across the following 3 fixes. At least one of them should work for you-
Fix 1: Easiest - GUI setting
This fix requires no fancy commands. You just have to go to Mouse & Touchpad settings and make appropriate changes. To go to the settings, you can either-
- Press the windows key (on the lower bottom, Ctrl key, Function key, Windows key, Alt key), and type mouse in the search bar that shows up.
- Click the activities button on the top left, and type mouse in the search bar that shows up.
Now, you should see something like this-
You can check the tap to click and two finger scroll options and your problem is solved.
If, however, you see something like this-
Then you have to use the next fixes, as the Mouse and Touchpad setting are useless for you.
Fix 2 : Tapping and reverse Scroll
If you are able to scroll just fine, but your touchpad is not registering the taps, then just type this command into the terminal-
synclient tapbutton1=1This should enable tapping for you.
In my case, I had scrolling working without any problems, but I prefer natural scrolling, and that option wasn't there for me in mouse & touchpad settings. However, if you type synclient into the terminal, you see something like this-
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Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 1618
RightEdge = 5366
TopEdge = 1356
BottomEdge = 4536
FingerLow = 25
FingerHigh = 30
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 251
MaxDoubleTapTime = 100
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 282
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 114
HorizScrollDelta = 114
VertEdgeScroll = 0
HorizEdgeScroll = 0
CornerCoasting = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0
MinSpeed = 1
MaxSpeed = 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.035014
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 0
RBCornerButton = 0
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 0
TapButton3 = 0
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 1
ClickFinger3 = 1
CircularScrolling = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 200
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
PressureMotionMinZ = 30
PressureMotionMaxZ = 160
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
GrabEventDevice = 0
TapAndDragGesture = 1
AreaLeftEdge = 0
AreaRightEdge = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge = 0
HorizHysteresis = 28
VertHysteresis = 28
ClickPad = 0
synclient VertScrollDelta=-114And turns out I was right and it did reverse the direction of scrolling.
Little problem
These changes that we made aren't persistent, and the synclient setting would revert to default every time you start your system again. There are many solutions to this, one of which include editing files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. However, these files tend to get overwritten and we have to deal with a lot of other mess to fix that behavior.Instead, we will use a very simple solution, and just run the above two commands on system startup.
Add the commands to startup
Step 1 : Navigate to the .config directory
cd ~/.config/Step 2 : Check if autostart folder exists
lsStep 3: If it doesn't exist, create the folder. If it exists, skip this step
mkdir autostartStep 4: Navigate to autostart folder
cd autostartStep 5: Use your favorite text editor [vim v/s/ sublime text?] (or cat ). I'm using leafpad to make things look less intimidating.
leafpad script.desktopStep 6: A leafpad windows will pop up. Paste one of the following into the window and then save and then close leafpad.
If you are logged in as root (probably the case)
[Desktop Entry]
Name=MyScript
Type=Application
Exec=/root/script.sh
If you are logged in as another user (if you created a non-superuser account)
[Desktop Entry]
Name=MyScript
Type=Application
Exec=/home/<name here>/script.sh
Note 1 : To find the <name here> in second case, just navigate to home (cd ~) and find present working directory (pwd)
Note 2 : (If you're curious why I didn't use ~ and instead made two different scripts for root and other users) Exec=~/script.sh didn't work for me. Maybe it does work in general, and there was some other factor in play for me, or maybe it isn't supposed to work at all. Not sure. Any comments in this regard are welcome.
cd ~Step 8: Create a file called script.sh
leafpad script.shStep 9: Paste the following code into it. Then save.
synclient tapbutton1=1 #To enable tapping
synclient VertScrollDelta=-114 #To reverse direction of scroll
PS: Paste only the lines required by you.
Step 10: Make it executable
chmod 777 script.shor
chmod a+x script.shRestart Kali and see if your tapping and reverse scroll are still working. If not, go through the steps again and see what you missed. Everything is case sensitive so you have to be very careful in that regard.
TroubleShooting
If typing the commands into the terminal worked for you, but automation by adding the commands to startup didn't, then here is one simple troubleshooting tip to isolate the problem.
Open a terminal and type
./script.shIf your tapping/reverse scrolling is working fine now, then your script is fine, but the autostart directory content is not. Recheck steps 1 to 6.
If your tapping/reverse scrolling isn't working fine, then your script is flawed. Recheck step 7 to 10.
Fix 3 : modprobe method
I found out about this method here. It did fix a few things for me, but like the second reply on the thread, what happened with me was-
Earlier my scroll was working and tap to click wasn't
After running the commands
After running the commands
Tap to click started working and two finger scroll stopped working
Also, even when my scroll was working it wasn't natural scroll and that's a bit inconvenient for me. So, Fix 2 above was the best fix for me. However, I've included this fix because it seems to work with most people. So here it is-
Step 1 : Open a terminal.
Step 2 : Type the following command. Your mouse pointer will stop working after typing the first command and will resume continue working (hopefully with the touchpad problems solved) after the second.
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=imps
Persistence
Follow these steps-Step 1 : Navigate to required directory
cd /etc/modprobe.d/Step 2 : Open text editor
leafpad whatever.confStep 3: Paste this-
options psmouse proto=imps
Step 4: Save and exit
Restart and see if the changes are persistent.
Again, I reiterate, this method is based on a fix I found on Kali Forums, and you should read further there if you are facing any problems.
That said, if you are facing any problems, then feel free to comment. If you followed the guide but had to do something a bit different to get it working, then also comment, as it may help others.
That said, if you are facing any problems, then feel free to comment. If you followed the guide but had to do something a bit different to get it working, then also comment, as it may help others.
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