Guy Rutenberg

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Disable Touchpad Tapping in Kubuntu

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In Ubuntu (gnome) there is an easy graphical way to disable tapping on the touchpad. However, KDE lacks such thing. But lacking graphical configuration doesn’t mean this should be difficult. All you need is the gsynaptics package. The package provides a small utility called synclient. Now you can disable tapping by doing

 synclient TapButton1=0

To disable the tapping permanently you should use the following to run the command at the start of every KDE session.

echo "synclient TapButton1=0" > ~/.kde/env/disable-tapping.sh
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Written by Guy

January 8th, 2010 at 11:13 pm

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  1. You need to make disable-tapping.sh executable, i.e. chmod +x ~/.kde/env/disable-tapping.sh

    inkstain

    18 Mar 10 at 06:35

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