How to disable click-to-tap?

Vladimir-V

Hello. I use NetBSD 10.1. The touchpad of my laptop annoys me with click-to-tapping. I would like to disable the click-to-tap function and utilize the physical buttons on my touchpad instead. Using dmesg command I found that my touchpad is Synaptic. Reading through the pms man page I did not find a variable that could disable the annoying click-to-tapping. Is it possible to disable the function?

rvp

Vladimir-V Using dmesg command I found that my touchpad is Synaptic.

Try sysctl hw.synaptics. There might be a setting there to disable tap-to-click (touchpad tapping).

Jay

I think creating something like this to file below might help
# vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics-notap.conf

Section "InputClass" Identifier "Synaptics touchpad tap-to-click disable" Driver "synaptics" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Option "TapButton1" "0" Option "TapButton2" "0" Option "TapButton3" "0" EndSection

Vladimir-V

OK, I read the pms man page carefully once again and the only variable that is close to what I am searching for is "hw.synaptics.up_down_emulation". But there is no value that could disable the left and right buttons emulation.
I also tried to follow the Jay's suggestion and created an Xorg configuration file for my touchpad with no success. (On Linux it might work though)
Probably the tap-to-click feature cannot be disabled for now. Thanks to everyone.

Overlord1310

Hi!, I also wanted to disable the touchpad on my ThinkPad, and even though I had disabled it in the BIOS, it was still working in X11. I ended up doing exactly what rpv suggested.

I changed the following setting from 0 to 1 to disable mouse movement:

sysctl -w hw.synaptics.movement_enable=1

And I also changed the default value for finger_high from 35 to 100 to disable tap-to-click:
there

sysctl -w hw.synaptics.finger_high=100

I gradually increased that value until I found the point where taps no longer triggered a click.

Finally, to make the changes persistent, I added them to /etc/sysctl.conf.

hw.synaptics.movement_enable=1
hw.synaptics.finger_high=100