Configuring Touchpad With Libinput

Configuring the toupchpad using libinput is useful for global configuration (across DEs and WMs), or for window managers if you don’t wanna use some hacky graphical tool.

First install the package xf86-input-libinput if you’re using Xorg or libinput for Wayland then create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf and add the following lines to it:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    # set MatchIsTouchpad "on" if you’re using a mouse or a trackpoint like in the thinkpads
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    # tapping can be "on" or "off" depends whether you want tapping or not
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    # natural scrolling can be "true" or "false" depends whether you want natural scrolling or not.
    # also natural scrolling is when scrolling the touchpad the page goes in the same direction of the scrolling.
    Option "NaturalScrolling" "false"
    # horizontal scrolling can be "true" or "false" depends whether you want horizontal scrolling or not
    Option "HorizontalScrolling" "true"
    # button mapping where each one represents the number of taps,
    # i.e. here left one tap, right two taps, and middle is three taps
    # where taps are done at the same time :)
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm"
EndSection

Note that if you put more than one option, or an invalid option the touchpad will use the default configuration.