Comment 0 for bug 1511496

When I tap the Synaptics touchpad of my laptop, the contents of the clipboard are pasted. It's exactly as if I typed "Ctrl-V" in the current window. I see no way in the touchpad settings to disable this behavior, so it seems like a bug.

Action taken: tap the touchpad in the top right of the touchpad
Expected result: the mouse is clicked at the current location
Erroneous result: the clipboard is pasted into the current application

This is a brand new Dell Latitude E7450 running Xubuntu Trusty (Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, Release: 14.04).

Here is the output of apt-cache:

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
  Installed: 1.7.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.7.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Note that this seems to be the exact same bug as was reported in #1264713, but that bug is permanently closed and I was asked to create a new issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-31.36~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt7
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.18
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 29 14:32:22 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-16 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)