Disabling touchpad tapping in 9.10

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Nov 18, Nigel Ridley did say:

> Subject: Disabling touchpad tapping in 9.10
> 
> 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 ?

Just another thought Nigel...

Ever since I got this laptop I'm running I've had an issue with tapping and
scrolling. Some time ago some kind soul told me about the Xorg.conf
method Which used to work for me. Then first in Sabayon, then in Kubuntu
I had to learn to edit the right .fdi file. (someone else already covered
that pretty well) But there is another method that may work for you.  I
learned it because my elive installation didn't respond to the xorg.conf
method, And neither did it have an 11-x11-synaptics.fdi file to edit.  But
I found a method involving a cli command: synclient Which basically uses
the same option names and values that can be found with "man synaptics"
But to invoke it on the command line or in a script such as a
.bash_profile the syntax is: "synclient optionname=value" such as:

synclient MaxTapTime=2
If that works for you, or you might try my personal favorite:
synclient TouchpadOff=2

Putting it in the .bash_profile should work if you use the graphical boot
provided by kdm. (I think) But I didn't test that because I boot to text
mode and use startx when I'm ready to. If I put it in my .bash_profile,
the xserver wouldn't get the message...  So I put it in my ~/.xinitrc
file, which works for me. 

Of course YMMV Good luck with it.

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