[SOLVED]synaptic touchpad click

[steve228]

hey everyone. i was wondering if anybody could help me with my touchpad.

problem: I can't get it to stop clicking things when I touch it(I have heavy fingers lol).

what I have tried:

-edied the /x11/xorg.conf file by adding 1) Option "MaxTapTime" "0" and 2) Option “SHMConfig” “on”
-restarted the computer
-nothing happened :-(

What can I do to solve this problem?
-is there a package or library pre-requisite?
-can you help me with a simple step-by-step b/c I am VERY new to Kubuntu.

Thank you very much!

Here is my system (just in case):

KUBUNTU
Dell e1505
60 GB HD
1 GB RAM
Synaptics Touchpad
ATI video card

[steve228]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

please guys

[kreggz]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

Does it happen randomly? or Constantly?

[ElEdwards]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

Did you add those commands in the right place in xorg.conf? They have to be in the right section. Here's that portion of my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
	Option		"MaxTapTime"		"0"
	Option		"SHMConfig"		"on"
EndSection

I don't know if you did or not...but you can't just add the command to the bottom of the file....they must go in the correct section of the file.

Also,rather than reboot, do a Control-Alt-Backspace, which will log you out and then take you to the login screen..... it's a little faster than a reboot and still restarts X.

El

[steve228]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

It happened constantly... And i wrote all the right code but I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I never rebooted my laptop, once I rebooted it everything worked. Thank you so much for your help though!

[kreggz]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

you may want to change the title to solved

[steve228]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

im sorry... how do i do that? lol

[ebtech]

Re: synaptic touchpad click

Wow thanks for the tip. This issue has been bugging me for a couple months. Glad to have it resolved.

[linxuser]

Re: [SOLVED]synaptic touchpad click

I'm adding this cause I had a lot of frustrating nights (7) searching and trying all kinds of things to

get rid of tapping, remove tapping, stop tapping, on my touchpad, touch pad control
disable tapping,

"redundancy intentional for searching possibilities"

installed gsynaptics
edited xorg.conf to add SHMConfig line
trying gsynaptics on reboot had to restart and disable tapping everytime
removed gsynaptics
removed line from xorg.conf


this worked added

Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

to the "Synaptics Touchpad" section of xorg.conf

after reboot, it works touchpad tapping is diabled,,,,,,,,,,,,yeh!

[GreyGeek]

Re: [SOLVED]synaptic touchpad click

I avoid the mods to xorg.conf because it may be overwritten.

I saved the following script as "togglepad.sh" in my home directory and set its execution bit on.

#!/bin/bash
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off

# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')

# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
  synclient touchpadoff=0
else
  echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
  exit 1
fi
exit 0

This code uses the "synclient" application. If it isn't installed you can install it from the repository.
Setting "SHMConfig" isn't necessary.

Run Systemsettings-->Advanced-->Autostart and on that tab click the "Add script" button, navigated to the touchpad.sh script and added it to the list of commands that automatically start when KDE4 fires up.

[linxuser]

Re: [SOLVED]synaptic touchpad click

I'm having the same issue with 8.04 with persistent. I've opened 'casper-rw' partition in kdesu kate.
I've added to /media/casper-rw/etc/X11/xorg.conf in my laptop's install of kubuntu 8.04 and added the lines

Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

to the appropriate section ('Synaptics Touch Pad')

I've also opened and did the same with each of xorg.conf(followed by string of numbers)
that also exist in /media/casper-rw/etc/X11/

I'll know on next Live USB with persistent boot if it worked. I also have a /dev/sdb3 (casper-rw) issue
unrelated to this but Live USB with persistent constantly leaves /dev/sdb3 not cleanly unmounted.
So I have to fix it from a different install of kubuntu in konsole:
sudo su ## gives root user access
e2fsck -p /dev/sdb3 ## which checks and corrects errors on the partition (casper-rw).
exit ## leaves root access
link to my experience with this is:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...3856#msg183856