Laptop touch pad automatically generates mouse clicks

[yusufm]

I have a sony PCG-V505BX laptop. Since installing dapper, the touch pad seems to be very sensitive, as in when going starting to move the cursor, clicks are generated along the way.

Also, clicks seems to be generated randomly while not being used. This is a big problem, since if I'm typing anything, the click will throw the cursor to the location of the mouse pointer (as a normal click would). Or would select all the text and cause it to be overwritten (as a double click would).

[cenora (cenora)]

Same problem here on IBM ThinkpadT42. I had to DISABLE the mouse tap.
I've seen this issue on every Ubuntu release... Not sure why it is still here...

To disable tapping:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then in the
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"

Add:
         Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

to the end of that section
and restart your computer.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

In gutsy, there is no need to edit the Xorg.conf like that.

System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad->Tap to Click