Touchpad - no multi-finger click

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I am exploring different desktop environments and am running Debian 12 on a USB thumbdrive. While using Gnome Classic on Wayland I am able to select two and three finger click emulation in Gnome-Tweaks. The touchpad then works as required.

While using LXDE (or XFCE) the touchpad fails to differentiate between one, two and three finger clicks. Via Run -> Gnome-Tweaks I can see that the setting is still there, but is ineffective. I have not been able to discover any other setting.

Partial return from xinput list is:

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⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ FTCS1000:00 2808:0102 Mouse             	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ FTCS1000:00 2808:0102 Touchpad          	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]

sudo dmesg | grep -i touch returns:

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[    1.409980] input: FTCS1000:00 2808:0102 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-1/i2c-FTCS1000:00/0018:2808:0102.0001/input/input9
[    1.533255] input: FTCS1000:00 2808:0102 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-1/i2c-FTCS1000:00/0018:2808:0102.0001/input/input12
[    1.533635] hid-multitouch 0018:2808:0102.0001: input,hidraw0: I2C HID v1.00 Mouse [FTCS1000:00 2808:0102] on i2c-FTCS1000:00

PREFERENCES -> INPUT METHOD shows:

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Current configuration for the input method:
 * Default mode defined in /etc/default/im-config: 'auto'
 * Active configuration: 'missing' (normally missing)
 * Normal automatic choice: 'ibus' (normally ibus or fcitx5)
 * Override rule: 'zh_CN,fcitx5:zh_TW,fcitx5:zh_HK,fcitx5:zh_SG,fcitx5'
 * Current override choice: '' (Locale='en_GB')
 * Current automatic choice: 'ibus'
 * Number of valid choices: 1 (normally 1)
 * Desktop environment: 'LXDE'
The configuration set by im-config is activated by re-starting the system.
Explicit selection is not required to enable the automatic configuration, if the active one is default/auto/cjkv/missing.

sudo lsmod | grep touch returns:

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hid_multitouch         32768  0
hid                   159744  3 i2c_hid,hid_multitouch,hid_generic

From:

https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad
The following command will tell you whether you have a Synaptics, ALPS or Elantech touchpad:

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egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan' /proc/bus/input/devices

It returned nothing.

I'd appreciate help in resolving this.

Thanks