Enable tapping by default

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 14:13:26 UTC 2014


  Hi,

> > Even if you know that this weird "feature" exists, it will take you
> > hours to disable it, since while you are trying to find your way through
> > setting and control panels you will get tons and tons of random clicks
> > that open random windows that needs to be closed and change random
> > settings that you need to reset. And while you try to do this you get
> > even more random clicks that open new windows and change other stuff.
> 
> This has pretty much nothing to do with reality. So please write sane
> mails when you ask for sanity ;)

It may be a bit exaggerated, but I had exactly this problem multiple
times already:  Touchpad tap sensitivity is *way* to high and trying to
move the pointer causes unintentional clicks all over the place, even
after figuring it is very sensitive and being extra careful because of
that.

Dunno whenever that is due to crappy hardware or crappy software or
crappy default configuration.  Usually I grab a usb mouse, turn off
tapping, be happy.  Saw this not only Linux, but Windows too.  Also
there are touchpads which work fine.  Which makes me suspect it is just
crappy hardware.

cheers,
  Gerd




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