Turning off "click on dwell"

[rimorob]

I'm running Mint 19/XFCE on an old macbook. I have a weird problem with my mousepad - if my wrist hovers over it long enough, as it would when I type, for example, it automatically forces a mouse click. This makes it nearly impossible to use the system. The accessibility features are turned off, and I don't see click on hover in there anyway, though the web tells me that's where it would be in Ubuntu, for example. Any advice?

[Lord Boltar]

If you have a mouse plugged in you can temporarily disable the mouse-pad

Run the following command in a terminal:

xinput list

You will get an output that looks like this:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

It displays all the input devices connected. Note that they all have an id. Since 13 is the id for my touchpad, running the following command will disable it until you reboot.

xinput --disable 13

It will be disabled until you reboot or enter

xinput --enable 13

A work around I know but does work.