Disable touchpad tap to click?

[MarkHaysHarris777]

So Fn+F8 doesn't do it for you on the T61? Or does it not work because you're not running the support software for the touchpad which requires Windoze?

Yes, which is why I wrote the original script to begin with;  on the T61 running Mint (gnu+linux) the Fn+F8 does not disable the trackpad like Fn+F2 does on the Pinebook;  the key only works if the synaptics driver for windows is present ( just flashes and happily ignores the key ).

And as noted above, the touchpad is not really being disabled;  what is happening here is that the events from the touchpad are being ignored in X, which is why it doesn't do what the OP was really looking for precisely because it ignores ALL touchpad events not just button-1 from the tap-to-click.

What would be really handy is if the tap-to-click were a configurable property (and a unique event) so that we could ignor just that one;