How to turn off or disable touchpad tap

[mali2297]

Are there any new suggestions?

Have you tried this tip?

[speedwell68]

Touchpads are the devils work. Why not just turn the silly thing off all together and get a mouse.

[wladicus]

Have you tried this tip?

THANKS A MILLION mali2297. I am typing this note with the touchpad disabled and its WONDERFUL! I am glad you found this and especially grateful that you passed it on to me.

I managed to work out a detailed HOW TO for setting up a shortcut key version of this can be found in the last post at the following link:

http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux...d-kibuntu.html

Thank you again,
walt

[gmbrammer]

I put this little script (called "tp") on the launch bar ("tp 0") at the top of my gnome screen to toggle the touchpad on/off:

#!/bin/bash

# Touchpad Switch
# It requires SHMConfig enabled as described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sy...hpad#shmconfig

TpadStatus=`synclient -l | awk '/TouchpadOff/ { print $3 }'` #0 means On, 1 means Off
if [ "$TpadStatus" -eq "0" ]
then
synclient TouchpadOff=1
echo "Touchpad now disabled"
else
synclient TouchpadOff=0
echo "Touchpad now enabled"
fi

[kybKenny]

Apparently, in Intrepid Ibex our xorg.conf isn't used that much anymore.

I got Gsynaptics to work by doing as suggested here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sy...hpad#shmconfig
which is using hal rather than xorg.conf.

That didn't help me with my quest for two-finger tapping, but maybe it helps you (or anybody who walks by)...

Greetings,
kybKenny

[persev]

I am having the exact same problem, except that I don't really need that software, as I was able to disable the double tap from System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad.

Thanks, nice one.

[Tiger770]

I installed gsynaptics and then when I went to the mouse control panel I got an error that it GSynaptics could not not initialize. That I have to set SHMCongif in xorg.conf to true or XF86Config to use GSynaptics.

I opened xorg.conf and did not see any SHMConfig.

I'm stuck.

I had this problem....rebooted and it's working fine.