SDB:Disable horizontal and vertical scrolling for touchpads

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Situation

You want to turn off the horizontal and vertical scrolling and tap click on your trackpad.

For finetuning trackpad scrolling, see man synaptics

Procedure

Open the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (older versions of SUSE Linux use /etc/X11/XF86Config), search for Section "InputDevice", it should look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
  Option       "InputFashion" "Mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "SHMConfig" "on"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

You might have other InputDevice section, the one with Driver "synaptics" is the one for the touchpad.

Add one line at the end before EndSection:

Option        "TouchpadOff" "2"

This will disable the tapping and horizontal and vertical scrolling features. Save the file and restart your X-Server.

Links

SDB:Configuration of the Synaptics Touchpad on SUSE LINUX 9.1

SDB:Disable tap click for touchpads