Disable touchpad "tap-to-click"
 

I'm running ubuntu 8.10 on my eee pc 901 with all the hardware working correctly.

My problem is that I can't figure out how to disable the "tap-to-click" feature of the touchpad. I understand that gsynaptic has a utility to do it, but every time i try to launch it I get:
And my xorg.conf file looks like this:
So I don't understand how I can edit an empty 'xorg.conf' file.

My graphics are running fine, "glxgears" gives me 500fps... so what can I do?

Try adding this code to xorg.confThen restart X (logout, login again).

Can you go to System/Admin/Mouse/Touchpad, and uncheck the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" box?

IGF

The xorg.conf code you suggested doesn't seem to work... dunno why... and I don't have a "touchpad" tab in my mouse config tool. I do have gsynaptics installed but it wont launch like I stated earlier

Are you sure you're using Ubuntu 8.10? That feature was added in 8.10, and was not present in 8.04. I have 8.10 on two laptops, and both have that option in the touchpad tab (one of which is an Aspire One)... I don't have my eee anymore, or I'd check if it was there.

IGF

Yes I have the latest version of ubuntu (v 8.10) with all the updates.

The trouble is that X is getting to be way too "clever" and thinks it can organise everything
itself, and therefore very little (in your case nothing, it seems) needs to be explicitly
defined in xorg.conf

However, if you make entries there, they are supposed to be read and acted upon.

So here's my xorg.conf from my eee701 running kubuntu 8.04.1
It should work just fine in 8.10

You'll probably not want the gb keyboard, but everything else should be OK. (Just omit that line, or substitute us)
You'll see that synaptics features in several places, so that's why your first try didn't work.
Make a backup of your xorg.conf then replace it with mine, logout, login, and wretched touch-to-tap should be gone.

ok i just tried this... but no luck... nothing seems to change when I change my xorg.conf to what you have.
So i decided to run:
then after some tweeking it looked like this:
but neither adding the SHMConfig option or your tweek seemed to change anything...
I'm lost!!!

QUOTE]then after some tweeking it looked like this:[/QUOTE]

It's wrong:Too many options on that line

Im having the same issues, where i dont see the listing for input devices,...for anything, nevermind synaptics touchpad. I've been at this for a couple days now., and im becoming very frustrated, im uber newb to linux/ubuntu. i run ubuntu 8.10 w/ KDe desktop. If anyone could help i'd greatly appreciated, like i said im new and alot of things are over my head :S

Hey Christastrophe,
Since this is my tread I'll say that I was never able to figure the problem out and just gave up. And I'm not really a linux newbie.
I hope you do figure it out though.
Good luck :)

Just open Mouse Preferences and there will be a tab for the touchpad. You can disable finger taps there. At least that is where Ubuntu puts it.

Ref Post #6, he says that tab is not there, which I don't get.

IGF

The tab shows on my Dell 1420n laptop which has a touchpad. My desktop has an external USB touchpad which works without any additional configuration in xorg but in this case there is no touchpad tab in Preferences.

My Desktop doesn't have a touchpad of any type, and the tab is there....

Go figure.

IGF