Disable click (track pad)

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How do I do this via the terminal?

The track pad should only be for moving the mouse as my left click button is 0.5cm away for me to click!

I keep accidentally clicking when just trying to move my cursor!

track pad click is dangerous!

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Hi @benzmuircroft, Go to the mouse settings - there should be a touchpad tab where you can disable mouse clicks. I agree - it can be dangerous.

Hope this gets it.

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See - https://askubuntu.com/questions/118892/how-do-i-disable-touchpad-tap-to-click

But you can specify this via System, Preferences, Mouse -

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Or if you prefer, use dconf editor -

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Edit: Ninjaed!!

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[quote=“mdooley, post:3, topic:15538”]
Ninjaed!!
[/quote]Only by a few minutes :grinning: but I don’t have a touchpad on this desktop to grab the nice pictures.

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I assume the OP wants to bind keyboard keys to quickly enable and disable via keyboard.

Disable click (track pad) via Terminal:

gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-touchpad tap-to-click false

Enable:

gsettings set org.mate.peripherals-touchpad tap-to-click true

Check status:

gsettings get org.mate.peripherals-touchpad tap-to-click
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System, Preferences, Mouse (I have no touchpad tab)

edited dconf disabled tap-to-click, tap-button-one-finger set to 0, same with all other gestures set to zero

restarted but no change

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gsettings get org.mate.peripherals-touchpad tap-to-click
false

but I can still tap to click!

grrr lol crazy!

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there is no touchpad tab

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I have a theory https://askubuntu.com/questions/987134/trackpad-disable-buttons-but-keep-cursor-movements

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Not sure if it applies to your case but an absence of the Touchpad tab under Mouse settings is always fixed for me with sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics then a log-out & in/reboot.

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no change after restart

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Hopefully someone with more expertise can add more. I can offer what I’m sure is the basic problem - the touchpad hardware is not recognized and has defaulted to a basic mouse driver (ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse). I’m guessing the reason it works at all is because it does behave as a basic mouse.

If you search for “ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse” you will see this problem is quite common. It’s very specific to hardware so be sure and seek solutions for your specific system.

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I done a tone more attempts here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/411467/turning-off-tap-to-click-and-touchpad-scrolling-ubuntu-mate

ended up putting tape on the scrolling part of the track pad so i can feel when my finger is about to hit!

also i set drag and drop threashold to zero and double click-timeout to 50%

its not ideal

lol tape

apt-get install tape

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dudes,

love u lots but, this touchpad issue is a big deal plus alsamixer wont even load so i have no sound…

I’m out!

I will switch to plain Ubuntu tomorrow and probly never come back to mate!

touchpad tab is missing in settings > mouse … Ive gone through everything on google! spent the whole day!

I’m done!

close thread! x