On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Daniel Kurtz wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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": ... > The synaptics X input driver is probably interpreting large contacts > as 2-fingers, which is in turn being translated into a 2-finger tap. That's right! 2-finger taps are reliably interpreted as right-clicks. > To completely disable "2-finger Tap as Right Click", try setting TapButton2 = 0. > To temporarily change the setting, you can use the synclient program. > To make it permanent, change the value in the Synaptics section of > your xorg.conf file, and restart X. The synclient program does the job. However there is no Synaptics section in xorg.conf. In fact, there isn't any xorg.conf file at all; the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory contains only 00-system-setup-keyboard.conf, which talks about the keyboard but not the touchpad. Presumably I can add a similar file with config information for the touchpad driver, but I'm not sure what it should say. Any suggestions? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
