synaptics touchpad on ubuntu eee

Scott slewin at bmts.com
Tue Oct 21 14:27:22 UTC 2008


O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
> 
I will try and see if that works.

-- 
Your friend,
Scott
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