Sabayon 4.2 gnome : disable touchpad tapping

[udutronik]

I have a fresh install of sabayon 4.2, gnome

I want to disable the tapping fonction of my touchpad... I do I do it?

I've seen a thread about touchpad here :http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=15523&start=20 but its about earlier versions and honestly I'm a bit confused about the real solution...

can anyone guide me please?

Thanks!

[micia]

Try this one, it should work on Sabayon 4.2
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=16817

If something is not clear, I'll try to help you

[udutronik]

Thanks micia,

everything is clear on this thread, but it didnt work for me. I even added a line setting maxtaptime=0 (that's what used to work in xorg.conf) still no luck...

Well here is the content of my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <!-- Arbitrary options can be passed to the driver using
             the input.x11_options property since xorg-server-1.5. -->
       <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">2000</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">false</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">false</merge>
           <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
             <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
           <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">0</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


Any thought?

[micia]

try to change "TapButtons" to 0, like:

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<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">0</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">0</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">0</merge>


[udutronik]

well, I've tried to do as suggested but still no success...

Anything else I should try?

Again, thanks for all this help...

[micia]

I made some more research on this, I found a way that seems to be the best...
At least, it works for my laptop.

Try to add this option in your Hal policy:

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<merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">2</merge>


This should disable touchpad tapping and scrolling.
From the man page (man synaptics):

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 Option "TouchpadOff" "integer"
              Switch off the touchpad.  Valid values are:

              0   Touchpad is enabled
              1   Touchpad is switched off
              2   Only tapping and scrolling is switched off
              Property: "Synaptics Off"


My hal policy file looks like:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <!-- Arbitrary options can be passed to the driver using
             the input.x11_options property since xorg-server-1.5. -->

   <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">2</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">2000</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">false</merge>
   <merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">false</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>

    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


Notice that there are many GUIs that ease the configuration of your touchpad,
for example gsynaptics, to install it using equo:

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equo install --ask gsynaptics


notice that they require this line in your hal file:

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<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>


in order to be able to configure it.

[TheWhiteDemon]

Rather than go through all the work in the previous links, have you tried downloading libsynaptics and gsynaptics from Sulfer? This will allow you to check a box and the job is done. Just a thought

-C