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

[Anthony Biondo]

Fair enough.  I think you can make the mini config file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ like in the archlinux wiki link I sent.

Also, relevant comic: https://xkcd.com/963/

Sent from my mobile device.

> On Oct 29, 2016, at 6:20 PM, Robert Wilkens <robwilkens42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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