X / KDE eliminating touchpad tapping [SOLVED]

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

Hello all,

After looking through a bunch of guides and xorg.conf files, I can't seem to figure out why I can't disable tapping on my touchpad. Tapping drives me completely insane, and I just want it gone. Here's a copy of my xorg.conf file. If you know how I can fix this problem (or just have recommendations about any other changes you might make), please let me know.

didymos · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

Are you using syndaemon? Or synclient?
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PoDg · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:34 am Post subject:

I disabled tapping on my Ubuntu laptop by adding

Tlaloc · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

Don't forget that the standard firefox settings are the cause for many worries touchpad users have. Sorry that I cannot give a link to a howto how to change them because I forgot it, but I still wanted to point that out.

Bye, Tlaloc.

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

I haven't emerged either syndaemon or synclient. I thought those were extras that you could use. The interesting thing is that under KDE, in Control Panel --> Peripherals, there isn't even a section for TouchPad, which I believe there should be if everything in xorg.conf is configured correctly. I can barely use my laptop while the tap-to-click is on.
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didymos · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject:

syndaemon and synclient are part of x11-drivers/synaptics. Do "equery files synaptics" to get a list of everything from the package.
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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

The interesting thing, though, is that no matter what I change in my xorg.conf file, nothing changes on the touchpad itself. That's why I think that I have something setup incorrectly in my xorg.conf file.
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Tlaloc · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

To get an entry for your touchpad in Kcontrol you have to emerge KSynaptics. But I can say that the last time I tried to disable tapping I wasn't succesful either. No matter what settings I changed in xorg.conf or KControl tapping would remain enabled. Ksynaptics is even very picky about the synaptics version used, wrong version -> crash. On the KSynaptics homepage you can check which versions are supposed to work together.

Bye, Tlaloc.

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

I still haven't been able to get this damn tapping disabled. Apparently my laptop actually uses the ALPS touchpad instead of Synaptics. I have looked all over and haven't found anything that works for disabling the tap-to-click. I merged tpconfig, but I couldn't get it to work either because it just said "fatal: no Synaptics/ALPS device found." Any other suggestions? As of right now, this problem has essentially rendered my laptop unusable.

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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Do you have an external pointing device available to use until you are able to resolve your problems with the touch pad?

Tlaloc · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:24 am Post subject:

Have a look here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad
Especially at the section " Real-Time Tweaking" with synclient (changing settings without restarting X seems handy). Even tweaking firefox is explained there!

Bye, signor_rossi.

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

Well let me just say that I FINALLY got the tapping disabled. I've only been screwing with it for a couple days. :p Here's the xorg.conf file that finally worked (obviously, with use of the synaptics driver):