Disable touchpad tap to click?

[MarkHaysHarris777]

The following script assumes that  "xinput"  is installed;  it is installed on the original image but may not be present in the newer image.  To check try:

sudo  xinput  list

To install try:

sudo  apt-get  install  xinput

The following script has been modified to run on the 14" pinebook.  It may have to be modified again for the 11.6" pinebook;  

touchpad.sh

Code:

#! /bin/sh
#  touchpad.sh
#
#  Mark H. Harris
#  2014/08/07
#  2017/06/19  (pinebook port)
#
#  Enable or Disable the TouchPad  based on xinput
#  
#  notes:  assumes 'one' touchpad
#          assumes xinput    see man xinput
#
#  usage:
#          touchpad on|1        (enables)
#          touchpad off|0       (disables)
#
#
# get the touchpad device number TDEVICE
for line in $(xinput list |grep -i "hailuck" |grep -i "pointer"); do
  for word in $(echo $line |grep -i "id"); do
     TDEVICE=$(echo $word |cut -d'=' -f2)
  done
done

# get Device Enabled status for touchpad
for line in $(xinput --list-props $TDEVICE |grep "Device Enabled"); do
  TPRESTAT=$(echo $line |cut -d':' -f2 |cut -d' ' -f2)
done

# set prestatus keyword based on numerical data
if [ "$TPRESTAT" = "1" ]; then
  PSTATUS="enabled"
elif [ "$TPRESTAT" = "0" ]; then
  PSTATUS="disabled"
else
  PSTATUS="unknown"
fi

# get the touchpad name by device number
TNAME=$(xinput list --name-only $TDEVICE)

# turn enable or disable the device per input parms
echo " "
if [ "$1" = "on" ] || [ "$1" = "1" ]; then
  xinput --enable $TDEVICE
  echo "Enabling" $TNAME "ID="$TDEVICE "..."
  echo " "
elif [ "$1" = "off" ] || [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
  xinput --disable $TDEVICE
  echo "Disabling" $TNAME "ID="$TDEVICE "..."
  echo " "
else
  echo $TNAME "ID="$TDEVICE "(currently "$PSTATUS")"
  echo " "
  echo "touchpad on    (enables)"
  echo "touchpad off   (disables)"
  echo " "
fi

# get current Device Enabled status for touchpad
for line in $(xinput --list-props $TDEVICE |grep "Device Enabled"); do
  TCURSTAT=$(echo $line |cut -d':' -f2 |cut -d' ' -f2)
done

# display status of touchpad if the status has changed
if [ "$TCURSTAT" = "1" ]; then
  TSTATUS="enabled"
elif [ "$TCURSTAT" = "0" ]; then
  TSTATUS="disabled"
else
  TSTATUS="unknown"
fi
if [ $PSTATUS != $TSTATUS ]; then
  echo "Device Status:" $TNAME "ID="$TDEVICE "("$TSTATUS")"
  echo " "
else
  echo "TouchPad Status ("$TSTATUS") Unchanged"
  echo " "
fi

To disable the touchpad:

./touchpad.sh  off

To enable the touchpad:

./touchpad.sh  on


Notes:  It may be necessary to run the script with sudo.

I just spoke with Pete, looks like the 11.6" hardware also reports as HAILUCK co.ltd  pointer,  also device 8 by default;  so this script should also run on the 11.6" touchpad, although I have not tried it yet   Pete just successfully tested the script on his 11.6" pinebook with good results, unmodified.

The tap-to-click feature is a hardware feature of the touchpad;  essentially, tap-to-click is a "button-1" event !   In order to disable it you would have to change the mouse properties so that button-2 is button-1, and button-1 is not active (ignored).