Bugzilla – Bug 1227317
Can't turn off tap to click on trackpad
Last modified: 2024-07-05 07:35:43 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 ```
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.
(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?
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.
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’
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.
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.
Actually, I found in gnome-tweaks a setting called "Don't use mouse click emulation" which was the functoinality I was looking for originally.