Touchpad triggers click events even with 'Tap to click' disabled (XPS 13)
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Dell Sputnik |
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Bug Description
In certain conditions the touchpad still seems to trigger a click event even though 'Tap to click' is disabled via System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad.
Seen on a 2015 Dell XPS 13 9343 Developer Edition running Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.
User Story
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As a computer user, given I have disabled 'Tap to click',
I want the touchpad to fire a click event only when I hear a clicking noise when hard-pressing the touchpad anywhere
so that using the touchpad is a reliable and pleasant experience.
How to Reproduce
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Summary:
- Use different applications to test the behaviour, e.g. on the menu bar.
Steps:
1. Open GIMP and move the mouse to the menu bar
2. Open the Edit menu in the menu bar and hover over it
3. Move to the File menu in the menu bar, hover over it
4. Try fiddling around carefully, also with two fingers, moving the cursor up and down
5. Soon or later an action event (mouse click?) is issued, and opens, e.g. File > Open ...
Comments:
- This behavior can reliably be reproduced in both the Archive Manager (3.10.2.1) and gedit (3.10.4) with two-finger touches on either of the toolbar (e.g. "New", "Open", "Add", "Extract", "Save", "Print", etc. button), the navigation bar (e.g. "Back", "Forward", "Up", "Home" button), the action buttons of the About box (Menu > Help > About, then "Credits", "CLose" button).
- This behavior can also be reproduced with, e.g., PyCharm (the JRE-powered JetBrain's IntelliJ IDE for Python), though less easily.
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tags: | added: touchpad |
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Other people on the Dell Community Website have reported this too, e.g. http:// en.community. dell.com/ techcenter/ os-applications /f/4613/ p/19649835/ 20825123# 20825123