touchpad randomly pastes clipboard contents

[Guest]

I have a Lenovo T61 and it appears Kubuntu configured the touchpad as a 3-button mouse.

I won't bore you with all the details about how many times this has screwed me up (randomly pasting garbage into my code when scrolling or opening my credit card number as a url in firefox, etc.).

The mouse configuration in System Settings is next to worthless. Obviously the configuration for the touchpad has be set somewhere. Anyone have any ideas where? I see nothing in xorg.conf, which is where we always get pointed to anytime we want to do basic hardware config. Any other ideas?

Thanks

[finifly]

Re: touchpad randomly pastes clipboard contents

You can try installing the Ksynaptics package. I'm fairly certain there is a feature that shuts off the touch pad when you are typing. Plus it has a bunch of other configuration options and it's all GUI based.

[Guest]

Re: touchpad randomly pastes clipboard contents

You can try installing the Ksynaptics package. I'm fairly certain there is a feature that shuts off the touch pad when you are typing. Plus it has a bunch of other configuration options and it's all GUI based.

Thank you!

The very first thing I do with any touchpad is turn off tap-to-click - my false positive rate can nearly be measured in clicks/minute. And I couldn't find it yesterday.

I put Hardy Heron on my Dell Latitude Sunday, but didn't have any internet connectivity available. I had some time and a connection on Monday, and started to do some work, and my touchpad was driving me nuts! I started doing some searching through kubuntu.org, and was despairing (I was hoping to find something like the debian.org packages search), when I ran across this. It looks like exactly what I was hoping to find.