Monday, April 13, 2009

I recently purchased an HP 2133 mini-notebook, and while it's quite a nice piece of equipment it does have some annoyances. One of which is the Synaptics touchpad, which appears to simulate a left-click of the mouse if the cursor hovers over certain GUI elements for more than a second or two - this makes working without a proper mouse a right royal pain in the posterior. This appears to be the default hardware behaviour, as the same thing happened in the pre-installed Windows Vista.

After some trawling through Google it appears the solution is to add the following line to the relevant InputDevice section of xorg.conf:

    Option "TapButton1" "0" 

After restarting X this seems to solve the problem.

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