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How can I disable tap-to-click in the greeter/login screen of elementaryOS?

I know that I can disable tap-to-click on a desktop of a user in the settings dialogue of mouse and touchpad. In the command line this is done using e.g. gsettings.

However, as a user tap-to-click is disabled for my users and I can check that with:

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click
false

But I fail doing it for the greeter having an annoying behaviour of the UI when typing in passwords.

I found that my question here duplicates this launchpad bug.. However, may be someone finds a workaround faster than me ;) However, I upgraded to Loki, but am still somehow interested in finding how to change the tapping behaviour in the greeter.

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There is a palm detection method
Try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Disable_touchpad_while_typing

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  • I once saw this tip. However, recently I upgraded to Loki. There the problem does not exist anymore. Why? I do not know: In the packages (now Loki) I search, there is no 'xf86-input-synaptics'. Therefore I do not find '70-synaptics.conf' in '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/'. And '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/' does not exist - only '/etc/X11/Xsession.d'. – Stefan Bollmann Sep 18 '16 at 13:03
  • You can create '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/', then 50-synaptics.conf – winger Sep 19 '16 at 15:36
  • Actually it doen't matter how you name config file because the whole 'xorg.conf.d' directory was created for these 'somename.conf' files just to split for the sake of simplicity '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' which is for all X server settings. – winger Sep 19 '16 at 15:47

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