11.2 RC1 - Disable touchpad tap to click

[FiveInchTaint]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, but I think I might have it fixed. I noticed that on rare occasions autostart would work and tapping would be disabled at startup. This made me think that there might be some sort of timing issue, i.e. when my script was executed in the startup process. So I altered the script to delay the execution by 10 seconds after startup:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
synclient MaxTapTime=0

I put this script in my ~/.kde4/Autostart director. It has worked fine so far, and hopefully it will stay that way.

deano ferrari wrote:

>
> I wonder if this 'KDE 4.X kcm_touchpad'
> (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=113335) tool
> might work for you.
>
> The Packman repo has 'touchfreeze' available for openSUSE 11.X as well.
>
>


Thanks deano ! kcm_touchpad works just fine for me on RC2.

[deano_ferrari]

Glad to hear that.

[dan77g]

Jeez. I'm over here from Kubuntu. I'm glad I saw deano_ferrari's post 'cause I was about to start hacking HAL files.

Kcmtouchpad seems good, after preliminary testing.

The big question: why the hell is this not in the default KDE4 release?

[epicurious]

I've always used

synclient TouchpadOff=2

in my startup script in Fluxbox. This stops tapping completely but allows you to move the cursor and use edge scrolling...

[charmedguy18]

Originally Posted by FiveInchTaint

Well, I think I may have found a solution. I created the following shell script:


I then moved the script to the ~/.kde4/Autostart directory and made it executable. That seems to have done the trick. I originally tried to set it up to run at startup from the KDE Autostart section in the system setting window, but that didn't work no matter how I set it up (i.e. to run at startup, pre-KDE startup, as a shell script, or as a program). Additionally, I think the script has to have .sh as it's suffix to run from the ~/.kde4/Autostart directory, but I may be wrong. In any case, this seems to be working for me-touchpad tapping has been disabled for the last several restarts. That said, it would be still be awfully nice if future versions of KDE provided a simple GUI tool to do this.

This works! Thanks!


Just a note for any beginners like me who didn't read the whole post (and maybe if you don't know how to edit/run it).

1) In terminal, type

sudo zypper in nano

It will then install the nano text editor which will be used to make the script.
2) Go to terminal again and type

sudo nano ~/.kde4/Autostart/mouse.sh

3) On the screen now is the nano text editor. Either type or copy/paste the script into the prompt:

#! /bin/sh
synclient MaxTapTime=0
synclient MaxDoubleTapTime=0

4) Save by pressing control + X and then pressing Y.
5) To run the script copy/paste or type the following into terminal (exactly as is, do not miss the space):

. ~/.kde4/Autostart/mouse.sh

At that, you'll notice your trackpad starting to behave.

[charmedguy18]

Oh! I apologize I totally forgot a necessary step:

6) In terminal:

sudo chmod +x ~/.kde4/Autostart/mouse.sh

[lindope]

I had this problem also -- installed and ran gsynaptics and all is well!

I normally love tough troubleshooting -- but I'm too busy lately and have begun to fall into the simple solution lover's camp.