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

[Robert Wilkens]

Thank You for the idea, though it's a little frightening trying to 
tinker with the xorg.conf (which doesn't exist by default). For now it's 
above my ability to do, but I'll try again when i have more patience.

-Rob

On 10/29/2016 02:33 PM, Anthony Biondo wrote:
> 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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