How to enable touchpad TapButton click & scroll option permanently in KDE & GNOME

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Issue

  • In Gnome the GUI system settings allows to permanently enable touchpad tap to click and vertical horizontal scrolling. In KDE, apparently the touchpad GUI settings don't provide these options.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • GNOME
  • KDE

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