Comment 4 for bug 113278

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8600. I NEED to be able to disable the button press emulation on the touchpad. I would LIKE to be able to set the time delay for mouse movement, which seems to be the point of a lot of posts where typing generates cursor movement by accident (palm touched the mousepad). If I have to I can live with the accidental typing touch. I can't live with the button press emulation and the first thing I did in Windows XP was to disable it. The cursor can be hard to pick up in adverse light. If you tap the touch pad and move it a fair distance to spot the cursor -- AND the cursor happens to be for instance at the top of the screen when you do it - you end up launching something you really didn't want to. This also happens when moving the cursor on drop down windows - say for intance - preferences: You have reached the end of the touchpad area getting to that particular drop down and when you pick up your finger to re-engage at the top of the touchpad area so you can scroll down the list of drop down buttons - your disengage-engage finger action is treated as a button click and you launch whatever aplication happened to be under the cursor when you picked up your finger.

Most people I have associated with immediately turn off tapping on the touchpad as a mouse click option in Windows Xp, and why that is not the default action, I have no idea.

As a final note, I have not been able to successfully get synclient /syndaemon running. I have added synaptics lines (per previous posts) in a new input device section in xorg.conf, and tried to disable with synclient TouchpadOff=0 and immediately get a SHMconfig not running error.