How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Why does antiX not use the GUI "Mouse and Touchpad" thoughtfully provided by MX?
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Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
antiX thread.GuiGuy wrote:Why not use the GUI "Mouse and Touchpad" thoughtfully provided by MX?
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.
Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Yes , sorry
Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
My file is now identical to that. When I enter startx, I get 'waiting for X server to begin accepting connections' - the wait goes on for ages so I just shutdown the PC. I think I'll go back to Debian 9 LXDE.dolphin_oracle wrote:I don't see any existing line.
this is my file as edited.
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Section "InputClass" Identifier "Touchpad" # required MatchIsTouchpad "yes" # required Driver "synaptics" # required Option "MinSpeed" "0.5" Option "MaxSpeed" "1.0" Option "AccelFactor" "0.075" Option "TapButton1" "1" Option "TapButton2" "2" # multitouch Option "TapButton3" "3" # multitouch Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1" # multitouch Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1" # multitouch Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1" Option "CoastingSpeed" "8" Option "CornerCoasting" "1" Option "CircularScrolling" "1" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "7" Option "EdgeMotionUseAlways" "1" Option "LBCornerButton" "8" # browser "back" btn Option "RBCornerButton" "9" # browser "forward" btn Option "TouchpadOff" "2" #turn off touchpad tapping and scrolling EndSection
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Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Hello again DO. I really don't understand how editing that file caused such a mess for me. That's a pity. I've since moved back to vanilla Debian 9 Stable with LXDE.dolphin_oracle wrote:in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/synaptics.conf file, and then log out and log in should do the trick.Code: Select all
Option "TouchpadOff" "2"
other options for that switch
Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are:
0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
more info here:
ftp://www.x.org/pub/X11R7.5/doc/man/man ... ics.4.html
Edit: LXDE on Debian 9 Stretch has touchpad tapping off by default.
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Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Though these are old posts, in case anyone is searching for a solution to the accidental swiping of the Touchpad while typing, I tested dolphin_oracle's modification of the synaptics.conf files as shown above and under AntiX 19, it works with no problem and is a way to simply disable the Touchpad completely. Using synclient from the command line:
has the same effect but is lost after a new login. Using a simple alias with bash could be a way of disabling then re-enabling the Touchpad by resetting the TouchpadOff parameter to "0" for it to work again. It is a simpler solution to using the touchpad-indicator program which doesn't seem to be in the standard repos for AntiX 19.
Hopes this helps anyone looking for a solution to the annoying Touchpad interference while typing on a laptop.
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synclient TouchpadOff=1
Hopes this helps anyone looking for a solution to the annoying Touchpad interference while typing on a laptop.
MX 17.1_x64 Horizon: Thinkpad X220, Core i5-2540M, 8GB RAM Kernel 4.15.0-1-amd64
Re: How to disable touchpad tapping in antiX 17?
Thank you, agrendel.agrendel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:57 am Though these are old posts, in case anyone is searching for a solution to the accidental swiping of the Touchpad while typing, I tested dolphin_oracle's modification of the synaptics.conf files as shown above and under AntiX 19, it works with no problem and is a way to simply disable the Touchpad completely. Using synclient from the command line:has the same effect but is lost after a new login. Using a simple alias with bash could be a way of disabling then re-enabling the Touchpad by resetting the TouchpadOff parameter to "0" for it to work again. It is a simpler solution to using the touchpad-indicator program which doesn't seem to be in the standard repos for AntiX 19.Code: Select all
synclient TouchpadOff=1
Hopes this helps anyone looking for a solution to the annoying Touchpad interference while typing on a laptop.
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