** Summary changed:

- synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to
+ synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks too easily

** Description changed:

- a couple updates ago my synaptics touch pad just started pasting things
- that i never even copied whenever i reply on these forums or when im
- talking on gaim.. it just decides it wants to paste when i try to move
- the mouse pointer.. then when im reading a webpage and i move the mouse
- it just starts to highlight everything out of nowhere.. im not telling
- it to click, but it swears thats what im doing
+ By default in Ubuntu the touchpad always detects taps. In other
+ operating systems tap detection is disabled when users are typing. This
+ is currently achieved using an insecure mechanism - a shared memory
+ region. This shared memory region is disabled under Ubuntu because it is
+ a possible security hole. The driver should be changed to allow tap
+ detection to be controlled via the X protocol, which would allow this to
+ be done securely, and would make it work correctly.
  
- so i tap the pad just to move the mouse and it pastes, or highlights..
- when im goign though the menu's (applications places system) it selects
- the wrong program when i lift my finger and put it down again (after i
- reach the end of the touchpad and need to scroll further)
- 
- its driving me nuts, i even did a clean install and it still does it..
- tried gsynaptics and when i tell it to disable tap click it still does
- it
- 
- ive tried max tap time=0 and that would work for awhile then the
- problems would still occur.. this is a very criplling problem that didnt
- happen early on in the dapper stage
+ There is a workaround that can be used: setting MaxTapTime 0 in the
+ xorg.conf.

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synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks too easily
https://launchpad.net/bugs/47971

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