Touchpad double-tap holding is not working

This solution woks for me

Go to: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/10/31/fix-for-touchpad-trouble-in-ubuntu-11-10/

From the post:

One of the issues introduced by Ubuntu 11.10 on my Eee PC 901 is touchpad dragging. The tap-and-drag gesture, for moving the cursor with the mouse button depressed, is too sensitive. I have to tap as fast I can to activate the gesture every time

Run this command to get the timeout before a tap is interpreted as a single tap: synclient | grep "SingleTapTimeout"

On my system this option was set to 180, which is too fast. Run this command to double the timeout to 360: synclient SingleTapTimeout=360

Thanks go to Tom.

I have a half answer for you and am having the same problem. The 10% of the time it works you are probably tapping twice very fast, that's when it actually works as you want. You can change your behavior (tap faster twice then drag) to get what you want, but a fuller solution fixing the double tap timing along with drag would be ideal.

I have no real solution but can tell you something that doesn't work but should. Go to launcher / search using the super key (windows key usually), type mouse, then choose "Mouse and Touchpad". You can change the double click time spacing and double click will trigger with longer time between taps but the double click then drag motion won't be affected. I personally notice this when trying to select text. I'd upvote this post but don't have enough repuation... Accept this as a partial answer and I'll upvote when I get enough rep. Hope this helps, found any better solution?