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Check out the xinput command. xinput list will give you a list of input devices; find the ID of the one which looks like a touchpad. Then do xinput list-props <device id>, which should tell you what properties you can change for the input device. You should find one called something like Tapping Enabled and a number in parens after it (in my case, it's libinput Tapping Enabled (276). Finally, run xinput set-prop <device id> <property id> 1, and tapping should work.

To make the change permanent, find a way to run that command on startup. One way would be to add exec xinput set-prop <device id> <property id> 1 to ~/.i3/config.

// Taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/516e8c/tap_to_click_touchpad/

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