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I would like to disable the function right-click when tapping the touchpad with two fingers, because it is always interfering with the two-fingers/scrolling function. I also would like to maintain the function left-click when double tapping with one finger. Thanks for the help.

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Are you comfortable with the command prompt?

You can configure in detail how you want your touchpad to behave using synclient

You can get a list of current settings by doing synclient -l

For your specific request, you will need to run synclient TapButton2=0 to dissable the feature. To make the feature persistent create a ~/touchpad.sh configuration.

More info...

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  • Mark question as answered then? Cheers. – conner_bw May 23 '13 at 18:08
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    Thank you! occasional righclicks while scrolling with two finger bothered me for a long time. – harry Jul 16 '13 at 4:15
  • Why isn'ter there a /etc/synclient.d/ like every other program? – Jonathan Dec 27 '14 at 21:05
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To summarize most everything that everyone has said, just open a console and run the following three commands:

echo "synclient TapButton2=0" > ~/.touchpad.sh
chmod +x ~/.touchpad.sh
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.input-devices hotplug-command “~/.touchpad.sh”
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  • This worked until I logged out. I suppose the hotplug command wasn't working for some reason. – Jonathan Dec 27 '14 at 23:32

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