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Gaurav Agarwal
Asked: 2013-03-26 06:45:11 +0800 CST

Disable three finger tap of Apple Trackpad in Ubuntu 12.04

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I have configured Apple trackpad on Ubuntu 12.04 in xorg.conf as suggested here.

I have also added

"TapButton3" "0"

but it does not disable three finger tap.

My Question

How to disable three finger tap of trackpad in xorg.conf?

xorg

2 Answers

  1. Run the following in a terminal

    synclient ClickFinger3=0
synclient TapButton3=0

    If this does the trick (or a variance of 0 , 1 , 2, 3 , ) you can add it to startup.

    (note i do not have a macbook,but it works on my asus. Please let me know if this does nothing at all)

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  2. Disabling unity gestures is much more difficult than editing the xorg config file. They are build into the unity package itself. It is possible to disable all gestures by follow this instructions on the post here:

    https://askubuntu.com/a/205045/41562

    The commands/files given may be slightly different depending on the current version number of Unity. This "fix" will not persist if unity is updated. You can disable updates for unity using the command below but you will not get bug and security fixes:

    echo "unity hold"|sudo dpkg --set-selections

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