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Can't disable touchpad clicking in Fedora 12

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http://www.linuxforums.org – Hello. I'm having a pretty annoying problem. I can't seem to disable clicking on my laptop's touchpad. I went into the Gnome mouse settings, but the Enable mouse clicks with touchpad option is checked and grayed out. I have also tried to edit my xorg.conf, but there is nothing in it! Lastly, I've tried to edit 10-synaptics.fdi file, but that didn't do much. Can anyone help me out? (HowTos)

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Submitted by linuxguru on 12/15/2009 – Made popular on 12/15/2009

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