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Asked: 2012-04-05 07:59:14 +0800 CST

How do I disable touchpad tap to click?

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You've heard this a million times but the "tap to click" is a pain in the behind and I want to disable it. There is no touchpad in gpointing-device-settings and neither in mouse and touchpad in system settings. I've tried some commands in terminal but it's all crap. Dconf-editor doesn't react. How about solving this once and for all?

Comp: Dell inspiron N5110

xinput list:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                        id=13   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD               id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]

EDIT:

I think someone fixed it here on launchpad

Can someone explain the fix like I was a four year old idiot? (using precise pangolin)

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6 Answers

  1. Type this into the terminal:

    synclient MaxTapTime=0

    But it will only work for the session, unfortunately.

    I have also found this which I have now tried myself

    Essentially it is a way to put the synclient settings MaxTapTime=0 into an executable file (I personally don't like fixes which involve installing GUIs on lubuntu - the whole point of it is lightness.

    I have now found that there is a way to get a .sh file to come on at startup in lubuntu see this thread where I asked about it.

    If you type 

    >>synclient

    Into terminal. This will bring up all the possible settings for the touchpad, so you can potentially do more tweaking.

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  2. All Settings--> Mouse and Touchpad --> uncheck "tap to click"

    Settings / Mouse & Touchpad / Tap to Click

    The image is from Ubuntu 16.04 as it appears on a Lenovo Thinkpad T460.

    I disabled 'tap to click'. I use the touch pad buttons for clicking. This makes my life much better with Ubuntu and Mint.

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  3. I just tried a the Wayland Gnome session on 17.04 and I noticed that it has many more touchpad options than the X11 session – including a persistent tap-to-click setting:

    enter image description here

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  4. In my Ubuntu 12.04 (for Toshiba AC100), there is such an option in the settings, exactly as shown in the image in https://askubuntu.com/a/85069/19753 .

    Perhaps, the required component of the settings menu isn't installed in your system. What can be the explanation otherwise?

    Perhaps, that's the problem regarding "the ALPS touchpads which are not recognized by Ubuntu. They behave as a PS2 mouse and the touchpad tab is missing from the mouse menu. Therefore there is no scroll option and, the most annoying thing, while typing, the cursor often jumps because I touch the touchpad. I found a program which can disable the touchpad on command: touchpad-indicator, which was found on the Ubuntu help page. This program seems to be able to stop and start the touchpad on command."

    I don't know whether you have such an ALPS touchpad. If so, touchpad-indicator could be of some use to you.

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  5. For KDE, set Touchpad settings → Tap Detection → Maximum Time to 0 ms. Verify by checking that the output of the command synclient contains MaxTapTime = 0.

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  6. I know this has been answered in the past, but I found for my 2017 xps, I needed to add a few additional settings to actually disable it. I think made the more modern synaptics drivers use these settings instead. 

    synclient TapButton1=0
synclient TapButton2=0
synclient TapButton3=0
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