I added this script to my startup programs to change my touchpad settings on startup:

synclient TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3

But this settings don't stay this way after startup.

I changed my script to watch the results:

synclient TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3

synclient | grep TapButton > $HOME/tmp/touchpad.txt

Results were confusing, touchpad still didn't work the way I want:

$ cat ~/tmp/touchpad.txt

TapButton1              = 1

TapButton2              = 2

TapButton3              = 3

But when I ran synclient | grep TapButton in gnome-terminal after startup the output was:

$ synclient | grep TapButton

TapButton1              = 1

TapButton2              = 3

TapButton3              = 0

I tried adding delays (sleep 10s) to my script before and/or after every line, but this didn't help too.

Therefore I assume that there is another program, script or daemon that changes touchpad settings, but I couldn't find which one.

Two questions:

• Which program, script or daemon can change touchpad settings?


• Is there another way to permanently change your touchpad settings? Maybe adding such script to startup is not supposed to be working.

Update

I tried putting

Section "InputClass"

    Identifier "touchpad my settings"

    MatchIsTouchpad "on"

    MatchOS "Linux"

    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"

    Option "TapButton1" "1"

    Option "TapButton2" "2"

    Option "TapButton3" "3"

    Option "PalmDetect" "on"

EndSection

into file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-my.conf. It didn't help as well.