If I'm moving the cursor with the track pad and then stop it over a link on a webpage, when I release my finger and then press the pad again to click, the mouse will usually move a couple pixels which causes the cursor to miss the link. If I'm careful and try to click in the same spot where I took my finger off it can work okay, but that doesn't usually happen.

What synaptics driver options could I change to help? I'm not using any desktop environment really, just openbox and lxpanel.

Lowering the pointer speed and turning up the acceleration might help. If you don't have a gui, you can use synclient to adjust these settings. I've never used it, but there is a nice GUI based utility called gsynaptics that can allow you to edit configuration. Type synclient to show all of your parameter settings. Look here for help. To change a setting, type synclient parameter=value , so if I wanted to lower the minimum pointer speed (which currently equals 1, I'd type:
After you've changed synclient parameters to suit your needs, open up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add the options you changed in order to make them "stick" between reboots. Go to the section entitled Input Device and add a line with the settings like this:
So, for example, if we wanted to make that speed change permanent, the config file should look like this:
There will probably be other options in here, but do not change them.

Try mine config. (Attachment synclient.txt)
(Since my works fine)
Before backup yours by issuing command
synclient -l > backup

Also try to tap vertically on trackpad, since it may be problem of smoothness of its surface.

Attached Files

synclient.txt (2.2 KB, 18 views)

So, did any of this work?