TL;DWrote. Check out [this](https://cravencode.com/post/essentials/enable-tap-to-click-in-i3wm/) site. In case the site becomes unavailable in the future, here is the essential part: ## Enable tap to click in i3 WM When switching from Gnome or KDE to using i3 tiling window manager on a laptop, you might be frustrated to discover that tap-to-click on your touchpad no longer functions. This is how to re-enable tap-to-click in i3 by properly using X11 configuration. ## The wrong way Many posts I found when trying to solve this for myself referred users to: - Run xinput list - Reading through the list for what you think is your touchpad - Using the id= value from the prior step to run xinput list-props - Looking for the ID value for “Tapping Enabled” listed between a set of parenthesis - Adding an exec to your i3 config to run xinput set-prop 1 While this is effective it certainly isn’t copy-paste drop dead simple and is a work around solution, rather than solving the issue using the capabilities X11 provides. ## Doing it the X11 config way X11 provides configurations in a directory “X11/xorg.conf.d/” this directory could live in various places on your system depending on your distribution. However, X11 will always attempt to also load configurations from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ when present. To ensure the directory exists, run: ``` sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ``` Next we’ll create a new file “90-touchpad.conf”. The configuration file names end with .conf and are read in ASCII order—by convention file names begin with two digits followed by a dash. ``` sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-touchpad.conf ``` Now open up the file your editor of choice (with suitable write permission of course) and paste the following: ``` Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Driver "libinput" Option "Tapping" "on" EndSection ``` ## Additional libinput options Libinput support additional options beyond tapping, you can add and configure each one by adding them on new lines after Option "Tapping" "on" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-touchpad.conf, for example: ``` Section "InputClass" Identifier "touchpad" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Driver "libinput" Option "Tapping" "on" Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm" Option "NaturalScrolling" "on" Option "ScrollMethod" "twofinger" EndSection ```