[Lilug] Disabling 3-finger-gesture at boot or login?

[Anthony Biondo]

I think you can put synaptics settings in your Xorg config file (or a
partial config file)

See, for example,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Configuration

Something like:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "TapButton3" "2"
    Option "ClickFinger3" "2"
EndSection

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016, at 07:40 AM, Robert Wilkens wrote:
> The Three-Finger gesture which brings up the task switcher (alt-tab 
> equivalent) is a pain in the rear for me because i have shaky hands due 
> to medication (tremors), strange enough i like the two-finger scroll and 
> don't want to lose that
> 
> Googling for 20 minutes this morning, i eventually ran across these 
> commands:
> 
> synclient TapButton3=2
> synclient ClickFinger3=2
> 
> Essentially it disables the three-finger-tap/click (if i understand it 
> right)
> 
> I was able to put this into my .bashrc so the first shell i open up will 
> turn this off
> 
> However, where is the  "right"  place to put this?  So i don't have to 
> open up a shell first.
> 
> Should i put this an an rc.d (init) startup script?  Is there a shell 
> (unity) start-up script so i don't have to put it system wide?
> 
> My ideal solution would not require root access (as /etc/rc5.d directory 
> entries would require), but I am willing to do that.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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