Need help using touchpad in laptop running Knoppix 6.2.0

[sethlang]

For tap to click try typing the following in the terminal:

synclient TapButton1=1

For vertical scroll try:

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1

[eckles]

Brilliant. It worked. Thank you

[ICPUG]

Use of synclient does indeed make the touchpad tap and scroll work.

However it seems to need doing every session. That is, it does not store the configuration change in the persistence image file.

Any advice on how to get it to store changes or where to stick a script that can be run on startup every time?