How to disable mouse clicks with touchpad on Trisquel 7
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Hello.
You know the feature where if you tap the touchpad, it clicks? I don't want it. To me, it's just a risk of clicking on things accidentally.
On every GNU/Linux distribution I've used so far, I've been able to disable this feature. In Trisquel 6.01, I went to settings, Mouse and Touchpad, and unchecked "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad", which worked as desired.
But now, I've installed Trisquel 7. When I go to preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, it has options for acceleration, sensitivity, and left handedness. That's it. No way to turn off the feature that I affectionately call "accidental click".
Whatever will I do?
By the way, there also seems to be some sort of feature where swiping with two fingers changes from desktop 1 to desktop 2 and back. I'd just as soon turn that off too.
So any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
It might be in System Settings -> Gnome Tweak Tools?
You should be able to do this through your Desktop Environment, I will assume that it's GNOME Fallback it is the default. If you cannot find what you are looking for in the Gnome Control Center > Mouse & Touchpad > Touchpad and then disabling "Tap to click", you can check directly in GNOME's registry:
doing "gsettings list-schemas | grep touchpad" gives "org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad".
Otherwise, it is best to look through synaptics manual(if your driver is controllable with synaptics) and the following arch wiki article to generate an appropriate configuration file to put in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Frequently_used_options
Could you also give a little more info? (device, desktop environment, previous configuration and intended configuration)
In the picture you will find my Mouse & Touchpad window.
Edit: Attachment and formatting
Under Mouse & Touchpad, uncheck "Tap to click".
Thank you for these replies.
I didn't find the solution per se, but it's not causing me a problem anymore... I had installed Trisquel Mini and I decided to install the full thing instead. Once I installed the full, non Mini version of Trisquel, the setting was right there under mouse and touchpad.
Thanks again.
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