Disable touchpad tap to click?
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I think part of  the problem is that it can do a dozen or so undocumented things like gestures, which frankly I don't care about.  Not sure if the Pinebook Pro has the same touchpad as the original or not but it's a challenge trying to live with it.  Go into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, make backup copies and start hacking.  Right now I've broken my right click but that's today's fun.  I could plug in an actual mouse.  Try "man synaptics", there are almost 40 options.  You'll probably need to reboot to see the effects of changes, unless you get ctrl-alt-backspace working.  X needs to restart.

A quick look on Aliexpress, type "touchpad" and "replacement" in the search box and you'll find 30 or more.  No idea how compatible they might be, they seem to be for Macbooks mostly.  And a black touchpad in a black laptop, I have to dig out my flashlight to find the edges of it.

I never bought myself a new laptop before, but I'm retired now.  I bought 6 or so used ones over 25 years, mostly off-lease fixer-uppers from eBay,  Dell Latitudes.  I've replaced touchpads, keyboards, motherboards, hard drives, batteries, wifi cards, just about everything.  With service manual PDFs.  I think the touchpad is the worst aspect of the machine.  Proofreading with my magnifying glass.

Oh
alias bigrx='urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"'
will get you a nice big rxvt window, assuming you have rxvt  (rxvt-unicode) installed.  rxvt is maybe the only terminal emulator that works right with mc.  Try an alt-i or alt-h, if the terminal emulator want to do something, it's useless.  It used to zoom on ctrl-shift-+ but that's been broken since unicode was added.

ctrl-alt (left or right arrow) switches desktop panes.


Messages In This Thread
RE: Disable tap to click? - by MarkHaysHarris777 - 06-19-2017, 07:50 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by pfeerick - 06-21-2017, 03:12 AM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by pfeerick - 06-21-2017, 06:23 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by combs - 08-04-2017, 08:18 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by NoSalt - 04-08-2019, 02:40 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by ab1jx - 02-09-2020, 02:20 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by jezek - 02-09-2020, 02:35 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by ab1jx - 02-09-2020, 03:39 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by ab1jx - 02-09-2020, 04:42 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by ab1jx - 04-27-2020, 06:25 PM
RE: Disable touchpad tap to click? - by ab1jx - 04-27-2020, 07:31 PM

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