Touchpad emulating buttons with no option to disable

[skroops]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Intrepid on a Dell Inspiron 910
package 0.15.2-0ubuntu3

The touchpad has middle-mouse click emulation enabled by default with a tap in the upper-right corner. There is no option to disable this behavior in the mouse settings. Also, there is no entry for the touchpad in xorg.conf.

Attached is an output of xinput list

Probably not relevant, but I did a fresh CLI install of Intrepid, then sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop --without-recommends
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27ac] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02b0]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02b0]

[William Grant (wgrant)]

It is quite intentional that it isn't in xorg.conf - almost everything is autodetected fine now.

As for the option to turn this off... you can turn if off manually using xinput (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config, Input Configuration section) - the first two elements of "Synaptics Tap Action" are what you need to set to 0.

[skroops (skroops)]

I should have replied earlier that william's solution worked.

[Simon Strandman (nejsimon)]

It would be great if ubuntu could stop turning this feature on by default, especially since there is no way to disable it without messing with xinput or synclient. Accidentally touching the upper right corner pastes text and closes tabs. This is really annoying!