No way to disable tap-to-click in Mouse & Touchpad settings

[Greg Williams]

Using Ubuntu-Gnome 17.04.

There is no option for disabling tap-to-click in the Mouse & Touchpad settings.

[Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko-sakkinen)]

/org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/tap-to-click does not seem to have any effect.

[Greg Williams (greg2lapa)]

I disabled /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/tap-to-click before reporting here. I can confirm that it has no effect.

[Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko-sakkinen)]

I've also tried to workaround this with synclient without any success so far :/

[Nica Bueller (nibue21)]

Just registered to spread the solution to this annyoing problem. By the way - most annoying registration process I have ever seen. Lame.

Anyways, make sure you have package xserver-xorg-input-libinput installed. Then you need to remove package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and restart. After the restart you have all the options back in the GUI.

Everything is handled by xserver-xorg-input-libinput now. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is interfering this.

[Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko-sakkinen)]

Thanks man! I was afraid it would be a feature, you never know :-)

[Ralf (fastcloud)]

Status changed, this issue STILL affects those running the HWE stack on Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome. ( sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 ) will result in outdated version of xserver-xorg-core ( <2:1.17.99.902) being installed which results in an unmet dependency for xserver-xorg-input-libinput and still breaks the tap to click dialogue. Removing the interfering xserver-xorg-input-synaptics obviously breaks things even more...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.