Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

[Bill Davidsen]

Linux Media wrote:
> I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step by 
> step on how to do this from all the posts...
> 
> Copy/Rename the FDI file...
> cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \
>  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi
> 
> edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in the thread appropriate
> section for your touchpad (you can discover which touchpad section by
> 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices')
> 
> Reboot
> 
> I added:
> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
> (allowing 'on the fly' shutting on and off of features with 'synclient')
> <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">2</merge>
> (Turns the mouse pad tapping (and other) features off)
> 
> I can still do:
> synclient TouchpadOff=0
> to turn the features on.
> 
> My /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi is in the paste bin as an 
> example...
> http://fpaste.org/paste/3891
> 
I did it by changing xorg.conf touchpad section to set the touch duration to 
zero. I can go dig out the details if you care, lots of discussion in this list 
on how to create the xorg.conf.

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