Interestingly, my biggest annoyance using Kubuntu comes not from learning the sheer number of technicalities of Linux, but from my not being able to disable the "tapping" as single-clicking on my trackpad in KDE. How do I configure KDE so it doesn't act on the tapping motion of my trackpad?
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Re: Disabling trackpad "tapping"
http://equickfixes.com/2006/02/11/di...icks-in-linux/
that is a quick how-to to disable it,
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/synaptics.5.html
That is a man page that is related to the settings involved. If you aren't familiar with config files, this one won't mean much.
By default (i think -- could be wrong) maxtaptime is already set in your xorg.conf if you have a touchpad. Just change the value to 0 :-) (then, if you tap for more then 0 milliseconds, then it won't read the tap.)
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Re: Disabling trackpad "tapping"
i found my xorg.conf file but do not see a parameter called or remotely resembling 'maxtaptime'. There is a Synaptics Touchpad entry as an InputDevice listed, but that parameter is not found under there. Nor is 'maxtaptime' found anyplace in the rest of the file.
Am I supposed to annex the line 'maxtaptime=0' under the Synaptics Touchpad entry? BTW, I am very new to configuration files.Comment
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Re: Disabling trackpad "tapping"
Under the synaptics touchpad section, you should then add the maxtaptime line as follows:
(between the SECTION and END SECTION lines of the touchpad)
MaxTapTime = 0
I am not totally sure whether it is case sensitive or not, but knowing linux, the former is by far the most likely -- that capitalization is in my conf, so i figure it will work
No worries being new to config files. I think you'll grow on them (i know i have. I love being able to set the defaults for things on my system -- not like windows where the defaults are the defaults. period.). In any case, think of them as the linux equivalent of a windows .inf file (not the same syntax, but essentially the same function. And also like a .inf, they can have lines inserted and removed as you need them to be)Comment
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