Completely disable taps on the touchpad

I have both the key cluster and the touchpad module, and I’m probably using the touchpad in a weird way but I get a lot of ghost taps and drags when I’m using it just to move the cursor around.

I’d be ok in using the click buttons in the key cluster module, disabling all the tap actions in the touchpad, but I haven’t found a way to do that. I haven’t probably searched hard enough. Any pointers?

That sounds like a malfunctioning touchpad to me.

You can easily unmap the single-finger tap in Agent:

(If you run into problems with other gestures (double finger “right-button” tap, scroll gesture or zoom gesture), they can be disabled via smart macros…)

The ghost taps might be resolved by fastening module screws.

One thing I am noticing with the touchpad is that if I point to somewhere and don’t let go of the touch (imagine I am reading something on the page and forgot to lift my touch finger up), it converts into a (left click+ touch) action. is there a way I can avoid that? (Does it make sense what I am trying to convey? :joy: )

Given that drag and drop can be initiated by touching and holding finger in place for a short interval and just then moving, I guess your touchpad is either loosing connection from time to time, or you are actually releasing the finger (if touching the touchpad very lightly.).

Please try to fasten your touchpad module’s screws as suggested above that may resolve this issue.

I tried fastening the screws, but I still get taps detected when I really didn’t want to tap. Like I’m moving the cursors hover a web page and end up with random portions of it selected.

Does the I2cRecovery counter keep incrementing when these issues happen?

No, it’s stable at 0. I’m inclined to think it’s a me problem, I just use the touchpad in a way that’s triggering taps when I don’t want to.

By the way, I removed the click action for the touchpad in the Agent, and somehow I managed to still get this select text thing while trying it out on a web page. I haven’t found a reliable way to reproduce this yet unfortunately.

We haven’t heard about this issue yet, but please keep us posted, and we’ll do our best to figure it out.

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I’m having a similar issue with my touchpad.
I’ve unmapped the touchpad so it’s got no actions.

Just in case… do you have it unmapped for all layers?
I’ve spent waaaay too long struggling with a similar problem. All boiled down to having tap active for the mouse layer, so if I held mouse mode button between clicks and used the touchpad to aim, all sorts of odd things were happening.

I actually don’t use the mouse layer at all. I recently nuked all the config when moving to a non official firmware that supports KVMs better, and while I can’t say which of the two things did it but I haven’t experienced the problem anymore

I have the same “problem” that I’m often triggering this behaviour of selecting/moving something witch the touchpad. Is it possible to deactivate this behaviour somehow?

I have already tightened the screwes and checked the recovery counter. Have also disabled the click action of the touchpad for every layer. But I’m still able to produce this case (tipping/resting my finger on the touchpad, release or move the finder and have a text selection or a window/action captured by the mouse until I tap the touchpad again.

Also, I could not find the correct command to disable it via onInit macro.

Is there any way to deactivate this?

Does it produce right click (two finger tap gesture) or left click?

It really just activates the mapped actions, so there should be no problem disabling it.

Feel free to share your user config so that I can give it a test.

It seems to be a left click as no context menu appears.The things it does are for example:

  • holding a browser tab and only releases it if I “click” on the touchpad again (although left click on the tochpad action is disabled)
  • selecting text

I can share my configuration. I did not configured much (I think).
Was not able to upload it here so I posted it in a Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qocj0sjtb6rt25yyqo9fd/UserConfiguration.json?rlkey=rdxh89w86gvhwk662uymt5q8e&st=fp2smkn6&dl=0

Wanted to record a video whats happening, but all that one can see is that text gets selected. Should be not that usefull.

What firmware version are you using? IIRC, v12.0.0 had issues with disabling/reassigning the touchpad. It would only output left clicks no matter what you assigned to the main tap action. Even selecting “None” action would still output a left click when tapping normally.

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Using firmware 12.0.0. :sweat_smile:
I’ll update it to the latest agent version’s one and check if it’s better with that.

As addition: It does not fire “normal” left clicks, just the drag and drop like select clicks. Will try it anyway. Maybe it’ll help.

That fixed it!

Couldn’t reproduce it since the update (now about since 5 minutes).
Thank you very much!

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