Disabling touchpad tapping in 9.10

[O. Sinclair]

Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:00 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com 
> <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Derek Broughton
>     <derek at pointerstop.ca <mailto:derek at pointerstop.ca>
>      > <mailto:derek at pointerstop.ca <mailto:derek at pointerstop.ca>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     O. Sinclair wrote:
>      >
>      >      > You could have a look at Synaptiks on kde-apps.org
>     <http://kde-apps.org>
>      >     <http://kde-apps.org>, have not yet tested
>      >      > it myself
>      >
>      >     I don't think that's the one I looked at - there was one tool
>     that
>      >     required
>      >     a PPA but the PPA was clearly broken, and I didn't get any
>     further.
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>      >     derek
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>      > I think you might be refering to kcm_touchpad
>      >
>     (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=113335
>     <http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=113335>
>      >
>     <http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=113335
>     <http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?action=content&content=113335>>).
>      > I wound up using the jaunty feed and it is working great. Tapping
>     is off
>      > and there are optons to set up all sorts of neat scrolling tricks. :)
>      >
>     Exactly how did you add this package in Karmic?
>     And why in heaven's name is this not in every distro out there
>     officially if it works??
> 
>     Sinclair
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> using your favorite text editor add the folowing line to your 
> /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> #kcm_touchpad ppa
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mishaaq/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
> 
> then use the usual methods to update your list and install kcmtouchpad
> After installation, you will have an extra tab in the keyboard and mouse 
> settings.
> 
Hm - seems to work just fine so why not in Karmic I wonder? One thing 
though - can not disable tapping while typing, greyed out on mine. And 
my touchpad defined as ALPS/ALPS2 I see.

Any tips on how to set settings so that I do not accidentally open 
windows and documents etc while scrolling cause that is what really 
irritates me?

Great find btw