[clug-talk] Shut off the 'tap' on my touchpad.

[Nick Wiltshire]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 8:56 am, Jon wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'm running Kanotix with KDE on a Dell Inspiron 1000 and my stupid touch
> pad is driving me nuts. I don't want to shut it off entirely, but I really
> need to shut off the 'tap' feature.
>
> I've been into the KDE control panel and set the following:
>
> Peripherals -> Touchpad -> General -> Touch Pad is set to 'off'
> Peripherals -> Touchpad -> Tapping -> Enable Tapping is unchecked.
>
> Yet the neither setting has any effect on the touchpad. It still works
> (which seems to bely the 'touch pad set to off' setting) and the tapping
> still works (which seems to bely the 'enable tapping is unchecked'
> setting).
>
> This is killing me...does anyone have any bright ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon


Hey Jon,

do you know the model of the touchpad?

Nick