Disabling touchpad mouseclick

I'm not sure how to go about doing it, but I'd like to disable the left click that you can execute by tapping the touchpad. I'd prefer to just use the button, as I'm constantly hitting it and messing up where I wanted the mouse to go.

 

Assuming you are using a synaptics touchpad and driver, from the synaptics driver webpage ( http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/)

How can I configure tap-to-click behavior?

1. If you set MaxTapTime=0 in the X config file then the touchpad will not use tapping at all, i.e. touching/tapping will not be taken as a mouse click.
2. If, instead, you set MaxTapMove=0 in the X config file, then the touchpad will not use tapping for a single finger tap (left mouse button click) but will for the two and three finger tap (middle and right button click).

From http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad, if you want to disable all tap to click and scrolling use the following xorg.conf variable;

TouchpadOff (Integer)

Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are:

0 Touchpad is enabled
1 Touchpad is switched off
2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off

 

Awesome! I'm going to have to file this away in case I come across it again. Excellent fix.