Disable Tap-to-Click

[2briancox]

I have LM 12 installed (+Cinnamon) and my mouse pad does not give me the option of turning off "Tap-to-Click". Nor do I have the options of disabling the touchpad while typing.

I was, however, able to add a notification area program that disables the touchpad when a mouse is installed. Touchpad-Indicator 0.9.1.6. And that did its job.

I also installed gpointing-device-settings. But that has very few options. See attached photo. I still cannot turn off the tap-to-click when using the touchpad. Nor disable touchpad while typing.

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[viking777]

If you go to System Settings>Mouse and Touchpad>Touchpad tab Don't you have this?

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If you don't I think you will have to use xorg.conf but that is not quite so easy.

[2briancox]

No. That's exactly the problem. I don't have a touchpad tab across the top like you show.

So how do I change this through a command line method? Or anything else that works?

[2briancox]

Mine actually looks like this:

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It seems to think the touchpad is a mouse. Yet touchpad-indicator works correctly (disables the touchpad when a mouse is connected).

Maybe this helps:

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~ $ inxi -F
System:    Host brian-Dell-System-Inspiron-N7110 Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop Gnome Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine:   System Dell (portable) product Dell System Inspiron N7110
           Mobo Dell model 09G8VY version A00 Bios Dell version A09 date 11/18/2011
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache 6144 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz (3) 800.00 MHz (4) 800.00 MHz (5) 800.00 MHz (6) 800.00 MHz (7) 800.00 MHz (8) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
           Card-2: nVidia Device 0df5
           X.Org 1.10.4 drivers intel unloaded: vesa,fbdev Resolution 1600x900@60.2hz
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio:     Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: 84:8f:69:be:44:e7
           Card-2 Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 driver iwlagn
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 4c:80:93:5a:30:61
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 750.2GB (3.8% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9750420AS 750.2GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 662G used: 27G (5%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 8.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info:      Processes 174 Uptime 1:07 Memory 756.2/7897.8MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7


How would I begin learning what to do about this?

[Binja]

I seem to have the same exact problem -- no Touchpad tab in the mouse settings or in the gpointing devices application, and a pressing need to disable the tap-to-click function. I'm using a new ASUS A53U laptop with a built-in touchpad, and can give any other stats that may be helpful in solving this.

[cxexa]

This might work.

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synclient TapButton1=0