Turning off touchpad tapping?

[Derek Broughton]

Chuck Mattsen wrote:

> New to Kubuntu, and about to tear my hair out (and I have too little to be
> able to afford tearing out any) because of unwanted "tap events" occurring
> while typing.  I've tried turning it off under System Settings | Touch
> Pad, but those settings seem to have no effect whatsoever.
> 
> What am I missing here?  Anyone?  TIA.
> 
Install ksynaptics.  It provides both a Control Center config tool to
(amongst other things) enable/disable tapping and a system tray applet that
lets you completely disable the touchpad or just enable/disable tapping.
-- 
derek