How to make xinput change permanent?

Question

My Laptop's touchpad was not clicking on taping. so i searched for google, and found that on running this

xinput --set-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" 272 1

(272 is "Tapping Enabled") it started working. But the article which i was reading said that it won't be parmanent. So i created this file named 99-libinput.conf and puted it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ , saved it and rebooted my laptop but it still didn't worked.

99-libinput.config file

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "My Touchpad"
MatchProduct "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
Option "TappingEnabled" "true"
EndSection

Help me figure out where i have messed up

So my answer should be good. You made a file in a wrong place with a wrong content. — Pilot6, Oct 08 '22 at 17:30

Pilot6 · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-08T17:31:10.333

For Ubuntu or Lubuntu you are doing all wrong.

There is a file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

The tapping is enabled in the touchpad section this way:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "Tapping" "True"
EndSection

You can also enable tapping in mouse settings GUI.

How to make xinput change permanent?

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