Disabling Tap-to-Click

**NemVitzh** · 02-17-2010

I'm on a new netbook using Ubuntu 9.10 and I cannot figure out how to disable tap-to-click on my touchpad. I figured it would be simple enough to use SHMConfig, however; every post I've seen says they have something similar to this in xorg.conf

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

Instead, I have this ...

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
End Section

I have tried simply changing the driver entry to "synaptics," however when I run SHMconfig it says the driver hasn't been loaded.

Any Ideas?

Thank in advance,
Ryan

**techieMoe** · 02-17-2010

You should be able to disable it in the graphical menus. There should be a tab in the Mouse control panel for "Touchpad" that will let you disable tapping.

**NemVitzh** · 02-18-2010

Originally Posted by techieMoe

You should be able to disable it in the graphical menus. There should be a tab in the Mouse control panel for "Touchpad" that will let you disable tapping.

That was indeed one thing I looked for ... but the option is not available.

**NemVitzh** · 02-18-2010

Anyone? .....

**reed9** · 02-19-2010

I believe this should still work for Ubuntu 9.10, but HAL is going away so it won't work in 10.04.

As it stands, you need to edit/create a HAL policy.

There should be a default file you can copy over

Code:

sudo cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10ovendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

Open for editing

Code:

gksudo /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

And then I believe if you change these three lines, replacing the '1' with '0'.

Code:

<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>

Should look like

Code:

 <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">0</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">0</merge>

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