Re: Annoying touchpad behavior

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Hi Alan,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:10:46PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Dmitry:
> 
> My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad:
> 
> [    2.528474] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000/0xa0000
> [    2.566383] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input4
> 
> Under circumstances which I can't pin down (they generally involve my
> thumb brushing over the trackpad, which happens fairly often as I
> type), the touchpad reports a right-click.  This causes gnome-terminal
> to pop up its menu, which is very annoying.
> 
> Why does the trackpad report a right-click instead of a normal 
> left-click?  How can I fix this?

You probably have corner taps or multi-finger taps enabled on your box.
What does "synclient' has to say about your setup?

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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