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jarrett

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From: On my chair

Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 15

disable two finger tap and middle click pasting in KDE

Hi,
I would like to know how I turn off the touchpads two finger tap (emulates a middle click), and also how I disable the middle button from pasting stuff from the clipboard
Can't find anything.. but should be simple right?

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: disable two finger tap and middle click pasting in KDE

You can check here for all the details, but in you 10-synaptics.conf shoulr be a line reading 'Option "TapButton2" "2" '. Comment it out. I can't remember at the moment if "2" or "3" does the trick, but you can figure it out.

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jameh0

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 40

Re: disable two finger tap and middle click pasting in KDE

Instead of editing the existing file, you should make your own with a higher number at the front to override. E.g. for me, the culprit file was 50-synaptics.conf with these lines:

#...
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
	Option "TapButton2" "2"
	Option "TapButton3" "3"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection
#...

I made a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-custom.conf :

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "change two finger tap behaviour"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton2" "3"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

So, "3" is the "right-click contextual menu", "2" is the "middle-click" and "1" is the "left-click / single-click"

sorry for necro-bumping - I didn't look at the date

Last edited by jameh0 (2013-06-15 02:41:29)

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