Disabling touchpad tapping in 9.10

Nigel Ridley nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Wed Nov 18 17:38:21 UTC 2009


Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> OK. No Xorg.conf in 9.10 -- so how do I disable touchpad tapping?
>> In Jaunty it was simply a case of adding:
>> Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
>> to the Synaptic Touchpad section of xorg.conf
>>
>> So what do I edit? Is it something to do with /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10_keymap.fdi ?
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
> Replying to self here:
> 
> I installed gsynaptics - and it works - but only per user and not globally :-(
> So with 4 users I have to disable tapping on each account separately. Oh well, at least it gives 
> them the option - which is what Linux is all about :-)
> 
> I haven't checked if it holds over a log-out/log-in......

No it doesn't :-( You need to run gsynaptics every log-in :-(

Is there another way?

> 
> Nigel
>




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