controlling touchpad in hardy?

[O. Sinclair]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
>> Under gutsy, my laptop had a thing in the system tray that would allow me
>> to configure the touchpad so that tapping it was not interpreted as a mouse
>> click (I had to reconfigure it every time, though, but at least it was
>> possible).
>>
>> I did an upgrade to hardy, and that program isn't there any more. And going
>> to system settings doesn't seem to give me any options that affect the
>> touchpad. Does anyone know what I need to do regain some control over my
>> touchpad? It's driving me crazy: the laptop keeps thinking I'm clicking the
>> mouse when I'm just trying to move it.
>>
>>   Doc
>>
> 
> It's gone the way of the Monty Python Norwegian Blue [parrot].
> http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/
> But there is a new development - called TouchFreeze - at version 0.2
> 


Touchfreeze did not make me much happier and I really miss KSynaptic. 
But after googling and searching around forever I found that adding this 
line
	Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
to the Synaptic Touchpad section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11) disables the 
tapping totally and I then use the pad-buttons instead for clicking. 
Peace at last!

Sinclair