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Offline marmarama

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where is synclient file?
« on: October 30, 2014, 04:56:15 AM »
hello!
 i want to enable tapping on the  touchpad. i installed xf86-input-synaptics and by default tapping is not enabled. i can enable it with
synclient TapButtons1=1 but after reboot i goes back to default.
i try to find where the synclient file is? in arch linux its stated its in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf . where is it in tinycore?
so i can edit it and keep changes permanently.
 thanks!

Offline Juanito

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 05:01:13 AM »
as per the apps gui: /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

If you take a look at the file, it tells you where to copy it to in order to edit it - note that you would then need to add it to your backup.

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2014, 09:44:43 AM »
thanks for reply!
 but i still need help. i found the file but i dont know what to do next. i want change an option from TapButton1=0 to an option
TapButton1=1. how can i do that to make it persistent?

Offline Juanito

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2014, 09:51:15 AM »
As per the file:
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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.

Then you edit the file and then add "etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf" to /opt/.filetool.lst

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2014, 02:24:07 AM »
hi again!
 1.what does it mean to rename the file? its 50-synaptics.conf. i created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d but left in with the same name, i dont know what to rename it.....
 2 in my tinycore 5.4  /opt contains only backgrounds bootlacal.sh bootsync.sh and shutdown.sh and tcemirror files. there is no /opt/.filetool.lst.  do i have to create it?
 thanks!

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2014, 02:28:56 AM »
EDIT
sorry, i just found the filetool.lst, its a hidden file in /opt.
 but the first question remains-  what to rename the 50-synaptics.conf  ?
thanks

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2014, 02:31:03 AM »
In fact I don't believe you need to rename the file, you can copy it as-is to the folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
« Last Edit: November 08, 2014, 03:08:58 AM by Juanito »

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2014, 11:40:55 PM »
hi!
 i added  "etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf" to /opt/.filetool.lst    and now after reboot i get the message   " failed in waitforX "
 any ideas how i can startX?
thanks 

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2014, 12:28:12 AM »
Instead of "startx", use this:
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/usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &..and check for error messages.

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2014, 08:22:19 AM »
hi!
thanks for answers,
 i did    /usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp &  and got the answer     /usr/local/bin/Xorg  not found.... :-\

what else i can do?

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2014, 08:48:47 AM »
Hi marmarama
It sounds like Xorg is not installed.

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2014, 10:04:26 AM »
hi!
 Xorg is installed. it was booting well but after i wanted to enable touchpad not just one time with synclient but make it permanent after reboot, i edited /etc and added to filetool.lst. but then i can boot only into command line..
 any ideas?

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2014, 10:17:41 AM »
I'm not sure if that's what you did or not, but you should only specify the file you edited and not all of /etc

Offline marmarama

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Re: where is synclient file?
« Reply #13 on: November 16, 2014, 10:15:54 AM »
SOLVED!
thank you very much!
 what i did was type in command line    /usr/local/binXorg   .some big answer came out where i saw my typing mistake in line 38  of the file  i etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf       i edited it and now it works!
 thanks a lot again. tiny core rocks!