{"id":1341,"date":"2008-03-11T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/11\/disabling-tap-to-click-on-synaptic-touchpad-in-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:23:35","slug":"disabling-tap-to-click-on-synaptic-touchpad-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/03\/11\/disabling-tap-to-click-on-synaptic-touchpad-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"disabling tap-to-click on synaptic touchpad in ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was leant a Dell Latitude D810 that has a Synaptics touchpad.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, I had to admit that the tap-to-click setting was a little to sensitive and kind of annoying (most frequently, I accidently clicked things in my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox).\u00c2\u00a0 I found that I could disable the tap-to-click feature by adding the line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\u00c2\u00a0Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\"MaxTapTime\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\"0\"<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>to the appropriate section of my \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf file so that it looks like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>Section \"InputDevice\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Identifier\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"Synaptics Touchpad\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Driver\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"synaptics\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"SendCoreEvents\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"true\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"Device\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"\/dev\/psaux\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"Protocol\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"auto-dev\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"HorizEdgeScroll\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"0\"\r\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Option\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"MaxTapTime\"\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \"0\"\r\nEndSection<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leant a Dell Latitude D810 that has a Synaptics touchpad.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, I had to admit that the tap-to-click setting was a little to sensitive and kind of annoying (most frequently, I accidently clicked things in my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox).\u00c2\u00a0 I found that I could disable the tap-to-click feature by adding the line:&hellip; 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