I am not able to find many of the options in my mouse settings in Ubuntu 16.10

Question

The options that are missing are tap to click, natural scrolling, etc.

Is it possible to figure out what is wrong?

Also,

synclient TapButton1=1 TapButton2=3 TapButton3=2

gives

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Edit: Added xinput output

~ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ELAN0501:00 04F3:300B Touchpad            id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HD WebCam                                 id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Acer WMI hotkeys                          id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]

Please [edit] your question and add output of xinput terminal command. 16.10 does not use synaptics by default. — Pilot6, Feb 08 '17 at 18:15
@Pilot6 yes. But only scrolling. Multi touch to right-click, etc. does not. Also, scrolling is the default and not natural scrolling. — Sandeep C, Feb 08 '17 at 18:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 18 '17 at 13:36

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Ubuntu 16.10 uses libinput instead of xorg-synaptics by default.

Ubuntu GUI does not support libinput options yet. Nor does libinput support synclient commands.

You can either configure libinput using the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-libinput.conf, or uninstall libinput by

sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-libinput

In this case xorg-synapics will be used, and you will have the GUI options back.

Make sure xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is installed. It contains xorg-synaptics software. It should be installed by default though.

For libinput configuration options see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/yakkety/man4/libinput.4.html

edited Feb 18 '17 at 13:36

Zanna

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answered Feb 08 '17 at 18:22

Pilot6

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does it require a reboot to start appearing? – Sandeep C Feb 08 '17 at 18:24
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I think restarting the X will be sufficient, but you can reboot. – Pilot6 Feb 08 '17 at 18:25
I did not tell to install anything. Yes, it is xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. It should be already installed. – Pilot6 Feb 08 '17 at 18:28
There is nothing to change. xorg-synaptics is not a package name, but the name of the software. – Pilot6 Feb 08 '17 at 18:31
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@Pilot6 This has solved the issue. Thanks! – Sandeep C Feb 08 '17 at 18:36

I am not able to find many of the options in my mouse settings in Ubuntu 16.10

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