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Okay, so I'm very new, and apologize if this is the wrong place. I've searched the forums and found somewhat similar issues, but nothing quite like this that I could tell. I'm running 14 right now, and whenever I tap on my touchpad in the lower right corner, it responds the same as a right click. This would be nice except I have big hands, and constantly brush the touchpad while typing, so I end up doing random things on accident, and it can be very frustrating. What I'm looking for is a way to disable this, so that my touchpad doesn't have any click options. As I said, I'm very new, so if it's a process, please be very clear on the steps involved.

Thank you ahead of time for everybody's help.

For those interested, I found a fix. On the Ubuntu forums, a user named VideoRoy posted this:

"For those that are interested in your runtime settings, go to Terminal and type synclient -l That is a lower case "L". You can change runtime parameters by typing syclient RTCornerButton=1 for example. This will make the right corner a Left click instead for a test. All changes revert back after logout / login or restart X server.

To remain persistent you have to put them in any file with a .conf extension in the xorg.conf.d directory."

I haven't tried the persistent fix yet, but setting both RTCornerButton=0 and RBCornerButton=0 stopped the issue for me, at least temporarily.

Persistent fix doesn't seem to work. I made a file with a .conf extension and put synclient RTCornerButton=0 and synclient RBCornerButton=0 in it. I then moved it to xorg.conf.d and restarted to test it. However, upon restart, the settings had gone back to previous. So I suppose my new question is, how can I set it so that those settings stay through restarts?

Don't know what desktop you're running, but in MATE go to Menu > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad. From there you can choose to disable the touchpad while typing.
Hope this helps.

barrieluv wrote:Don't know what desktop you're running, but in MATE go to Menu > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad. From there you can choose to disable the touchpad while typing.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for the idea, but that was the first thing I tried, and for whatever reason, it didn't do anything for me.

Check out mateconf-editor (System Tools > Configuration Editor). In the app desktop > mate > peripherals > touchpad

Therein, on the right, you have the options you need.