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Re: [Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (Wurstwesen) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:28:13 +0000

herd wrote:

man 4 synaptics:

Option "TouchpadOff" "integer"
Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are:
0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
Property: "Synaptics Off"
modify in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

I registered just to add another idea, for other people who might have the same problem and come about this solution by googling.

The thing is, i want to disable tapping but still have scrolling.

Therefore this solution didnt help me much.

On some other forum i found the solution to keep scrolling while disabling the nasty touchpad tapping.

And it worked perfectly with adding the line: Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

insert this in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, instead of "touchpad off" option, and you will keep scrolling, but the tapping bullshit is gone.

visiting https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
also helped quite a bit finding out more about these synaptic options.

Re: [Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (demosthenese) — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:50:41 +0000

Alternatively you can use xinput. My how to is at

http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtop … 6605#p6605

the relevant xinput command would be

$ xinput --set-prop 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' "Synaptics Off" 2

An advantage of using xinput is that you can have your own settings in a script to run at login, so they will not affect other users. Also you can change settings on the fly.

Re: [Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (Nick) — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:43:26 +0000

There is a good change we will extend pointer support in 4.10 to provide device properties. That will reintroduce a good way to configure device specific setting, unlike the hack we had in 4.6 (which for that reason I removed).

Re: [Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (alun_sundry) — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:20:17 +0000

Marvellous! Adding

Option "TouchpadOff" "2"

to that section did the trick. I'll put the solution in the Ubuntu forum where I posted first.

Thanks.

Re: [Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (herd) — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:28:09 +0000

man 4 synaptics:

Option "TouchpadOff" "integer"
Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are:

0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
Property: "Synaptics Off"

modify in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

[Solved] 4.8 and disabling the touchpad's 'tapping'

dummy@example.com (alun_sundry) — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:58:11 +0000

I'm enjoying Xubuntu 11.04 (with Xfce 4.8) since installing it yesterday but the procedure for disabling the tapping feature of touchpads seem to have changed. There was before a little bit of code to do with syndaemon or synclient to tap into Settings > Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart in its own added box, which doesn't seem to work now. I've googled and not found anything else works, except temporarily, for the duration of a session, to have gpointing-device-settings installed and to run it from the terminal and switch the tapping off there. The setting seems to undo itself next boot so it's not quite enough as a solution.

Hopefully the feature will get overdue gui representation in a coming update. In the meantime, has anyone here solved this?

Thanks.