On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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?
Here's the output from "synclient -l":
Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 1762
RightEdge = 5334
TopEdge = 1642
BottomEdge = 4520
FingerLow = 24
FingerHigh = 29
FingerPress = 255
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 234
MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
FastTaps = 0
EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 29
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 106
HorizScrollDelta = 106
VertEdgeScroll = 1
HorizEdgeScroll = 0
CornerCoasting = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 0
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0
MinSpeed = 1
MaxSpeed = 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.0375094
TrackstickSpeed = 40
EdgeMotionMinZ = 29
EdgeMotionMaxZ = 159
EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 1
EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 426
EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 0
RBCornerButton = 0
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 3
TapButton3 = 2
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 1
ClickFinger3 = 1
CircularScrolling = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 199
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
PressureMotionMinZ = 29
PressureMotionMaxZ = 159
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
GrabEventDevice = 1
TapAndDragGesture = 1
AreaLeftEdge = 0
AreaRightEdge = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge = 0
A few of the fields are suggestive, but I don't really understand much
of it. If you need anything else, let me know.
Alan Stern
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