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alun_sundry

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Registered: 2011-05-09

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

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.

herd

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

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

alun_sundry

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

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.

Last edited by alun_sundry (2011-05-09 18:20:46)

Nick

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

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).

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demosthenese

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

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.

Wurstwesen

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

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.