Bug 416805 - Touchpad: Two finger tap: Add option to disable two finger tap
Summary: Touchpad: Two finger tap: Add option to disable two finger tap
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_touchpad (show other bugs)
Version: 5.17.90
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2020-01-26 21:42 UTC by foss
Modified: 2020-01-29 17:22 UTC (History)
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Description foss 2020-01-26 21:42:22 UTC
SUMMARY

When scrolling with two fingers (sometimes three, when the third get tired and touches the touchpad) the context menu opens (unwanted/contra-productive). I use hardware button(s) for that (Thinkpad). Currently, one has to chose "Middle click" or "Right click" and both are "problematic", they trigger the context menu.


So in brief, am requesting an option to do nothing under "Two-finger tap".
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use two fingers for scrolling
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OBSERVED RESULT
Context menu opens

EXPECTED RESULT
No unwanted/unexpected context menu

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66
Qt Version: 5.14

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-01-28 19:06:20 UTC
You can already turn off taping entirely. Do I understand that you want to be able to do single-finger taps but not two-finger taps? Or is it acceptable to turn of tapping entirely (as I do, personally)?
Comment 2 foss 2020-01-29 17:11:41 UTC
Yes, I would like to be able to single-finger tap, but disable two-finger-tap. Two-finger-scrolling is often being interpreted as two-finger-tap.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-01-29 17:22:29 UTC
Thanks. Unfortunately that isn't something that I believe Libinput currently supports. You'd need to request support from them before we can add a setting to toggle the behavior.

You can do so here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues