Trackpad hypersensitive

[Lars Noodén]

The track pad on a Macbook Pro 8.3 is hypersensitive and interprets the lightest touch as a click. Even brushing the track pad with the sleeve of my shirt counts as a click. How do I decrease the sensitivity of the track pad?

[Copper Bezel]

Well, gpointing-device-settings has settings to control the tap time, and you could play with that if it's applicable. By raising the max tap time, I can replicate your problem. Lowering it might compensate.

However, I'm looking at this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1586340) and realizing I don't really know how Macs work. Do you use the Synaptics driver?

[Lars Noodén]

Do you use the Synaptics driver?

I use whatever is default for KDE. I've disabled the corner clicks, so that might have an effect.

[Copper Bezel]

It shouldn't, and drivers aren't defined by the desktop environment. Device settings are, however, and I don't know KDE, so someone else is going take this from here.