My new laptop is an (secondhand) Toughbook CF18. Installation of XUbuntu12 (LTS) was smooth and everything seems to be recogniced just fine. I have however two useability problems.

My one problem is that the touchpad is far too sensitive to an touch with my fingers. I get a lot of unwanted mouseclicks and drag&drop when i just want to move the cursor.

Is there an easy way to disable the mouseclick events from the touchpad so that i have to explicitly press the button when i want to click somewhere?


Thank you for your suggestions.

Check out

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5939

Make a backup of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf file before making any edits or changing the file.

You could try installing gsynaptics in xubuntu but I read

http://askubuntu.com/questions/17600...-xubuntu-12-04

No one has answered that in a year.