Cannot disable touchpad buttons

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

I'd like to be able to disable the mouse buttons on the touchpad, and use tap-to-click instead.

xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Click Action" 8 0 0 0

Did not work; it changed the property, but the buttons still functioned.

(Dell Mini 10v)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Something like the following solves the problem: xinput set-button-map $YOUR_TOUCHPAD 12 12 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 14:49 +0000, Alberto Milone wrote:

> Something like the following solves the problem: xinput set-button-map
> $YOUR_TOUCHPAD 12 12 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
>
As noted, it doesn't because it breaks tap-to-click

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[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

As discussed on IRC that disables any click event. An alternative to make the touchpad more usable would be to disable bottom area of the touchpad so that you can use the physical buttons (on the Dell Mini 10v) without triggering other events such as movements, taps or scrolling.

Make sure that you have xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.1.2-1ubuntu2 in Karmic and type:

xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Area" 32 0 0 0 4000

where 4000 is the new bottom edge. If you want to increase the size of the blacklisted area you can try something smaller than 4000.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Scott James Remnant, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-synaptics REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Thank you for your understanding.

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