I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Macbook Pro. When I click the trackpad, it is always registered as a small mouse movement as well as a click, so it drags whatever I click on. has anybody else encountered this? Is there any synaptics setting that can help? For the moment, I've enabled tap to click because normal clicking is so tough.
I didn't have this issue when running Ubuntu in a VM, but I guess that has another abstraction layer that prevents synaptics from being the one interpreting direct touchpad input.
Thanks!
Best Answer
On my HP Envy 14 Spectre I added this:
Edges values depends on your trackpad,
SHMConfig
option is useful to gather edges values withsynclient -m 100
.The option that disables that click area is
AreaBottomEdge
but it disables right or middle clicking too, only left clicking is enabled.That is why
TapButton2
andTapButton3
is used to mimic missing buttons.The only drawback of this approach is that you can't drag pressing right or middle buttons, only left button.