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Using my touchpad on my Unity desktop I have discovered the following:

Tapping the corners of the touchpad results in:

  • Top-right corner: Paste command.
  • Top-left corner: Copy command.
  • Bottom-right corner: Right-click or Context Menu commands.

Obviously, it's intentional however there must be settings to change these. I've looked through Settings->Mouse & Compiz Settings Manager but failed to find anything.

How do I disable these triggers?

Cas
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bohdan_trotsenko
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In terminal, type: synclient RTCornerButton=0. This solved the problem on me.

Execute synclient -l to list all configurations.

Cyrus
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Any changes you make with synclient are lost after reboot. To make the solution posted by Cyron permanent, paste the synclient command(s) to a shell script and add the shell script to your Startup Applications in Unity.

Note that the script has to start with #!/bin/bash, and that you may change permissions to executable to work properly.

kernpanik
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I was looking to solve this problem as well. I don't use a mouse; I use touchpad exclusively. My preferred code editor is vim and I was fed up with unintentional copy and pasting while touching the corners of my touchpad. It seems solution is easy:

  1. Go to Applications -> System Tools -> System Settings
  2. Click on Mouse and Touchpad option.
  3. Click to open the Touchpad tab.
  4. Uncheck "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" option.

That's all! Enjoy.

tayfun
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