the empty quarter

In a previous post I detailed steps on how to disable touchpad tapping in Xubuntu 8.04. Unfortunately the package gsynaptics-mcs-plugin which provides the Xfce Settings Manager plugin is obsolete in Xubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and therefore the annoyance of touchpad tapping and scrolling is back after upgrading from Hardy. Also, it turns out that the responsibility […]

UPDATE: These steps work fine for Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy). For more recent Xubuntu versions you should take a look at this later post which has the correct steps. One of the things I find very annoying is the default “tap to click” behaviour of laptop touchpads. Here are easy steps how to configure Xubuntu to […]