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DRNbw
Asked: 2018-09-08 11:49:37 +0800 CST

How to disable physical touchpad buttons but keep tap as click

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My old laptop (Samsung np300v3a, running fresh Ubuntu 18.04) has a broken left trackpad button, that is always pressed. I have been trying to disable the physical keys, but keep the tap to click in order to retain this use of the trackpad.

I've tried modifying xinput button-map, set-props, and some synclient options. I can disable the left click with xinput, but this also disables the tap to click function.

Threads I've read:
Disabling One-Finger Tap-to-Click But Keep Two-Finger tap Ubuntu 12.04
How to disable physical mouse buttons below touchpad

touchpad button xinput tap-to-click

1 Answers

  1. If you upgrade to at least Ubuntu 18.10 or 19.04, there is a simple way :

    create the file (and the directory) :

    /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks

    put in it this :

    [disable physical button of touchpad]
MatchUdevType=touchpad
MatchBus=ps2
AttrEventCodeDisable=BTN_LEFT

    It work fine on my sony vaio pro 13. You may have to tweak the Match* lines, have a look at : https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.13.0/device-configuration-via-udev.html

    good luck

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