From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Annoying touchpad behavior Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:05:05 -0800 Message-ID: <20111112060505.GA20411@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:53704 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110Ab1KLGFM (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:05:12 -0500 Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so6310940pzk.1 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:05:11 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Alan, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:10:46PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Dmitry: > > My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad: > > [ 2.528474] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000/0xa0000 > [ 2.566383] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input4 > > Under circumstances which I can't pin down (they generally involve my > thumb brushing over the trackpad, which happens fairly often as I > type), the touchpad reports a right-click. This causes gnome-terminal > to pop up its menu, which is very annoying. > > Why does the trackpad report a right-click instead of a normal > left-click? How can I fix this? You probably have corner taps or multi-finger taps enabled on your box. What does "synclient' has to say about your setup? Thanks. -- Dmitry