TOPIC: Disabling trackpad tap on 2006 PowerBooks

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Introduction
Synaptics is a special X11 mouse driver that allows you to control acceleration, tapping, scrolling of your Appletouch touchpad. If you're quite annoyed with the default tap behavior of the touchpad, here is how to get rid of it.

Disabling trackpad tap

1. The synaptics driver must be installed... this is as simple as:

   yum install synaptics [ENTER]

   
   
2. Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf with your favorite text editor, and replace the Mouse0 section that looks like this:

   Section "InputDevice"
           Identifier  "Mouse0"
           Driver      "mouse"             Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
           Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
           Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   EndSection
   

   ... with the synaptics enabled Mouse0 section that looks like this:

   Section "InputDevice"
           Identifier  "Mouse0"
           Driver          "synaptics"
           Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
           Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
           Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
           Option          "LeftEdge"              "0"
           Option          "RightEdge"             "850"
           Option          "TopEdge"               "0"
           Option          "BottomEdge"            "645"
           Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.4"
           Option          "MaxSpeed"              "1"
           Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.02"
           Option          "FingerLow"             "55"
           Option          "FingerHigh"            "60"
           Option          "MaxTapMove"            "0"
           Option          "MaxTapTime"            "0"
           Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
           Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "30"
           Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"
   EndSection
   

   
   
3. Then restart X and enjoy your tap-free touchpad.

This HOWTO was prepared by Owen Stampflee, Terra Soft Solutions