Laptop Touchpad clicking

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Can anyone tell me how to turn off touchpad clicking in OpenSuSe 11.2?
In 11.1 it was done in the Xorg.conf file but 11.2 does not have this file.

2

run


X -configure

and a xorg.conf will be generated…then add the clicking-off magic to
it…

–
palladium

3

If you have a Synaptics touchpad, then there is another method that doesn’t involve messing with Xorg settings.

Create this file as ‘touchpad-off’ in /usr/bin, root-owned, with permissions 755:

#!/bin/bash
# touchpad-off - bash script to turn the synaptics touch pad off

# synclient TouchpadOff=1
# Alternatively, only disable scrolling and tapping
synclient TouchpadOff=2

Then put a link to that file in your Autostart folder (~.kde4/Autostart)

Disable the touchpad completely with the TouchpadOff=1 setting, or only disable the scrolling and tapping functions with the TouchpadOff=2 setting. The second setting lets you use the touchpad, without the objectionable cursor movements that happen while using the keyboard.