asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

[rfakhrai]

Howdy,

this is my first venture into the world of netbooks (or any sort of non-desktop computer for that matter) and I'm finding this feature with my touchpad very annoying. If I tap it, it acts like a left-click. X.Org doesn't seem to identify it as a touchpad either so I can't correct this in system settings.

netbook:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer             id=2  [master pointer (3)]
⎜  ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer        id=4  [slave pointer (2)]
⎜  ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation     id=12  [slave pointer (2)]
⎜  ↳ ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel 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)]
  ↳ Power Button               id=8  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ Sleep Button               id=9  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam           id=10  [slave keyboard (3)]
  ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard       id=11  [slave keyboard (3)]

Any advice? I'd like to disable this tap to click feature.

[wizard10000]

Re: asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

Do you know what kind of touchpad? Mine shows up as synaptics but yours doesn't, so it's possible that kde-config-touchpad won't work.

If kde-config-touchpad is installed and your touchpad is supported you should be able to turn off tapping in systemsettings --> input devices.

There are other ways to do it but I'd try this one first.

Hope this helps -

[rfakhrai]

Re: asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

I searched for the kde-config-touchpad package and found no such thing. In addition, system settings>input devices does not recognize any sort of touchpad I have. I can't seem to figure out what type of touchpad it is. I always thought X would treat these things as a synaptics device.

Any other thoughts?

[wizard10000]

Re: asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

I searched for the kde-config-touchpad package and found no such thing. In addition, system settings>input devices does not recognize any sort of touchpad I have. I can't seem to figure out what type of touchpad it is. I always thought X would treat these things as a synaptics device.

Any other thoughts?

It's in there.

sudo apt-get install kde-config-touchpad

might be an easier way to install it.

Not all touchpad devices are treated as synaptics devices but it's a good place to start.

Holler if you need more help -

[rfakhrai]

Re: asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

nope, nothing by the name of that package. are you sure it's in 10.04

netbook:~$ sudo apt-cache search touchpad
kcm-touchpad - Configuration module for laptop touchpad configuration
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server (development headers)
gpointing-device-settings - configuration tool for pointing devices
gsynaptics - configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X server
libgpds-dbg - library for configuration of pointing devices (debug symbols)
libgpds-dev - library for configuration of pointing devices (development files)
libgpds0 - library for configuration of pointing devices
libspandsp-dev - Telephony signal processing library
libspandsp-doc - Documentation for the spandsp signal processing library
libspandsp2 - Telephony signal processing library
touchfreeze - a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-click function
tpconfig - touchpad device configuration utility

are any of these helpful you think? I tried messing around with options using the synaptics command but my touchpad is not recognized as a synaptics. same with the syndaemon command

EDIT: I tried touchfreeze (seems like the perfect solution right? Nope, doesn't work since I don't have a synaptics device. Hmmm... this is an odd problem. I'll have to research some more. I was hoping someone would have had this issue in the past.

[wizard10000]

Re: asus 1015pem touchpad: disabling tap click

Oh - I'm sorry, kde-config-touchpad is in 11.04 - try kcm-touchpad instead.

If it's not a synaptics touchpad you could try tpconfig or gpointing-device-settings if they're available.

cheers -