Lubuntu 13.10 touchpad config

**Rob Sayer** · February 16th, 2014

This may be a silly question ...

Installed lubuntu 13.10 last Wednesday on my Acer 1Gb netbook. Previously had mint 16 Mate for a short time

. Before that, xubuntu and kubuntu, 12.04 on. Lubuntu is FAST. So fast I'm inclined to forgive a few rough edges.

This netbook has the infamous Cedarview gpu and a broadcom 4313 (14e4:4727) wireless adapter, which doesn't have the best linux support either. So I'm not afraid of configuration from terminal or gksudo.

I wanted to turn of the touchpad while typing and tap to click, so I opened ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart with leafpad as per:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Mouse

... and the file was empty. No entries. File properties show the file is 4 bytes on disk. I was expecting many items there.

If I run

Code:

synclient -l

in terminal, there are a lot of parameters set.

What am I missing here? Is it normal for this file to be there but empty?

**ajgreeny** · February 16th, 2014

I can't help with turning of the touchpad while typing, but to stop "tap to click" make a script with content

Code:

#!/bin/bash
synclient MaxTapTime=0

save it as notap, make it executable and put it in /usr/bin, and then add it to the list in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart in form

Code:

@nm-applet
@lxpanel --profile Lubuntu
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@xfce4-power-manager
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu
@/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
@notap

That's my full list so ignore all but the @notap at the bottom.