In Ubuntu 8.10 and later, different input drivers may also expose arbitrary properties for applications to set. Synaptics touchpads are particularly configurable like this, but other devices have some more general properties.
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$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled: 1
Synaptics Edges: 1632, 5312, 1575, 4281
Synaptics Finger: 25, 30, 256
Synaptics Tap Time: 180
Synaptics Tap Move: 220
Synaptics Tap Durations: 180, 180, 100
Synaptics Tap FastTap: 0
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$ xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 8 0
$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled: 0
Synaptics Edges: 1632, 5312, 1575, 4281
Synaptics Finger: 25, 30, 256
Synaptics Tap Time: 180
Synaptics Tap Move: 220
Synaptics Tap Durations: 180, 180, 100
Synaptics Tap FastTap: 0
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