Touchpad Problems

[Becoming X]

In amidst the vast amounts of work I'm having to do on my Fedora laptop (Which is strangely fun I might add) there is one thing that isn't fun: My touchpad factory settings counted touching the actual pad as a left click. In Windows this was easy to change, but I was wondering where the touchpad settings are on Fedora.

I'm running Fedora 8 and using KDE 3.5.something


Thanks in advance

[unamanic]

There are a couple touchpad manufacturers but mine is synaptics. If this is the case with yours, you can install gsynaptics to have a gui way to configure it. You can also disable it globally by editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (actually even to use gsnaptics you'll have to edit it).

The first step is to open /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root in your favorite text editor. Find a section that looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Add the SHMConfig option for gsynaptic and the MaxTapTime option to disable tap to click

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
# required for gsynaptics
        Option      "SHMConfig" "true"
# disables tap to click 
        Option      "MaxTapTime" "0"
EndSection

Save the file, then log off and back in. You should be free of your tapping woes.

[Becoming X]

That sounds absolutely awesome. I'll just try that and get back to you soon. Thanks!


EDIT: Worked like a charm, thanks so much for that!