synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

[O. Sinclair]

Scott wrote:
> I'm in the same boat here I have been trying to turn off the tapping 
> "feature" on the synaptics touchpad for some time now.  I have not been 
> able to to so yet in intrepid as Gsynaptics won't work and ksynaptics 
> seems to have disapeared from the repositories.  I tried touchfreeze, 
> but that does nothing either and it is really getting me angury as twice 
> in writing this message the touch clicked off my writing.
> 
try this:
add  this line
	Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
to the Synaptic Touchpad section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11), it disables the
tapping totally and I then use the pad-buttons instead for clicking.

Sinclair