Bug 1227317

Summary:	Can't turn off tap to click on trackpad
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Rick Spencer <rick.spencer>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	xiaoguang wang <xiaoguang.wang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	gnome-bugs, yfjiang
Version:	Leap 15.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE Leap 15.5
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Attachments:	This shows Tap To Click is off, but it has no effect.

Description Rick Spencer 2024-07-03 06:25:51 UTC

Created attachment 875841 [details]
This shows Tap To Click is off, but it has no effect.

Note that I am actually running 15.6, but this happened on 15.5 as well.
# Observed
The Settings Application has a section to disable To To Click, but it is ignored.


# Impact
This is very annoying as I am continually accidentally pasting in text from my buffer into random places. Ideally, I would like to turn off just tap to click for the middle button, but at least turning off tap to click altogether should work.

# dmesg logs
```
> sudo dmesg | grep -i touchpad
[sudo] password for root: 
[    7.506717] input: SYNA8018:00 06CB:CE67 Touchpad as /devices/platform/AMDI0010:01/i2c-19/i2c-SYNA8018:00/0018:06CB:CE67.0001/input/input13
[    7.697757] input: SYNA8018:00 06CB:CE67 Touchpad as /devices/platform/AMDI0010:01/i2c-19/i2c-SYNA8018:00/0018:06CB:CE67.0001/input/input19

```

Comment 1 Yifan Jiang 2024-07-03 06:34:16 UTC

Hello Xiaoguang, can you drive this please? And I think we'd better off check the status of that in SLE-15 SP5 and SP6 as well. Thank you.

Comment 2 xiaoguang wang 2024-07-04 01:27:26 UTC

(In reply to Rick Spencer from comment #0)
> # Impact
> This is very annoying as I am continually accidentally pasting in text from
> my buffer into random places. Ideally, I would like to turn off just tap to
> click for the middle button, but at least turning off tap to click
> altogether should work.
> 
I’m not clear here what the middle button means. I guess below the touch area there are three buttons, left, right and middle buttons, is that right?

Comment 3 Rick Spencer 2024-07-04 08:12:28 UTC

Thank you for your kind attention to my issue. Please excuse me if I have a misunderstanding here. 

I believe that the track pad has 3 "virtual" buttons along the bottom of the track pad that responds to "tap to click." There are also 3 real buttons along the top.

The middle buttons (both "virtual" and real) paste whatever is on the the system's paste buffer.

I hope that explains, and thank you again.

Comment 4 xiaoguang wang 2024-07-05 01:06:32 UTC

Thanks for the explanation. I haven't used this type of touch pad before. I think the system treats these 3 virtual buttons as real buttons, so disabling the tap to click didn’t work on these 3 virtual buttons.

If just disabling the paste function of middle button, try this solution:

1.Install gnome-tweak package

> zypper in gnome-tweaks

2.Open tweaks -> Mouse & Touchpad, disable ‘Middle Click Paste’

Comment 5 Rick Spencer 2024-07-05 07:30:21 UTC

Disabling paste on middle click is a good around for me. thank you for your help.

I am ok to go ahead and close this issue, but if you want me to help troubleshoot more, please let me know.

Comment 6 Rick Spencer 2024-07-05 07:31:55 UTC

Closing as RESOLVED as the bug was investigated, it's not clear that it is a bug, and a workaround to the issue was proposed.

Comment 7 Rick Spencer 2024-07-05 07:35:43 UTC

Actually, I found in gnome-tweaks a setting called "Don't use mouse click emulation" which was the functoinality I was looking for originally.