Tap-click not working on touchpad

Hi,
I can't left-click by tapping with a single finger on my touchpad. My touchpad buttons are working correctly and my touchscreen too.
Here's my (unmodified) /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf :
# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
# Option "OptionName" "value"
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchOS "Linux"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection
# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
MatchDriver "synaptics"
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection
# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
MatchDriver "synaptics"
Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection
and here's my /var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://sprunge.us/dFgJ
Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks

Yeah I was about to edit my post since I found that
xinput list-props "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad"
outputs
Device 'AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad':
Device Enabled (138): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (140): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
libinput Tapping Enabled (291): 0
libinput Tapping Enabled Default (292): 0
libinput Accel Speed (278): 0.000000
libinput Accel Speed Default (279): 0.000000
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (280): 0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (281): 0
libinput Send Events Modes Available (259): 1, 1
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (260): 0, 0
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (261): 0, 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled (282): 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (283): 0
libinput Scroll Methods Available (284): 1, 0, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (285): 1, 0, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (286): 1, 0, 0
libinput Click Methods Available (293): 1, 1
libinput Click Method Enabled (294): 1, 0
libinput Click Method Enabled Default (295): 1, 0
Device Node (262): "/dev/input/event14"
Device Product ID (263): 2, 8
Notice the line libinput Tapping Enabled (291):0 . This doesn't make sense with my xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf which enables tapping.
Here's my xinput's output:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ TOSHIBA Web Camera - FHD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Toshiba input device id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

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