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OP2Patriot
27th August 2007, 04:05 PM
I have searched google, this forum, and have not ever found a mention of this problem. (Maybe I just don't know the proper terminology to search for)

I have 64-bit Fedora 7 installed on my Acer laptop. When my cursor is over the top bar of an application's window or tab, and I touch near (or at) the upper-right corner of the touchpad, that will close the window/tab. This is really annoying, because every now and then, I close stuff I don't want to, particularly web windows where I was typing something.

I could just disable the "touch to click" feature with the touchpad, but I like that, kind of hard for me not to get along without it. What I really want is to know what exactly must I do to disable this annoying upper-right corner touchpad click feature.

BlueC
28th August 2007, 11:22 AM
have you got the "gsynaptics" config utility installed? not sure, but it may have the options you require

OP2Patriot
28th August 2007, 12:29 PM

Already installed it. I had already got into xorg.conf before I got it and disabled verticle and horizontal touchpad scrolling. Somehow, some way, there has to be a way to disable the upper-right touchpad corner click feature, right?

Edit: I found the solution by checking the manual via: man 5 synaptics

I found that what I needed to add was:

Option "RTCornerButton" "0"

BlueC
4th September 2007, 02:36 PM
Ha, I stumbled upon the solution too while looking for something else and was just coming back to this thread to tell you!