Disable tap to click in xubuntu

Question

What is the "preferred" method to turn off tap to click in Xubuntu 9.10? It's not available in Settings->Mouse the way it is in Ubuntu.

Solution 1

There is no touchpad manager coming by default in xubuntu. You have two choices (both of them in the standard repos, at least until Karmic Koala)

• gsynaptics: is a legacy utility that will be dropped sometime in the near future. There are no dependencies for this package.
• GPointingDeviceSettings: this is the new utility that is going to be supported in future versions. Despite the fact this second option is gnome-oriented (check the link!), it has only one dependency (also in the repos), and it allows you to set up other pointing devices as well.

Hope this help!

Solution 2

There is a simple solution for this, at least for Xubuntu 10.04. To try if this will work in another version, open the terminal and run the command synclient MaxTapTime=0 Now test if the tap-to-click is disabled. If it works do the following:

Open the Settings Manager for XFCE and then choose Sessions and Startup. Open the tab Startup Programs. Add a new, and set the command to synclient MaxTapTime=0 It's case sensitive so be sure to write the command exactly as above. Now you only need to restart, and your done!

Comments

[Shane]

Thanks. GPointingDevice was probably the best way to do this - I wish there was a way to turn off tap to click without turning off the touchpad scroll.

[Rainier Wolfcastle]

pushing the tapping time sliders all the way to the short end seems to disable taps without impacting scroll

[DQdlM]

if you want to use the command line you can just add synclient MaxTapTime=0 to your .profile

[Kevin]

Worked for me, thanks guys. This has been bugging me for ages :)

[jarno]

live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings tells "This page does not exist yet."

[jarno]

gsynaptics is not available in repos for current Ubuntu releases.