I know there's a lot of similar questions, but nothing I have tried here works yet - perhaps I was doing it wrong.

New Laptop - Toshiba Tecra R850 with an install of Oneiric.

Mostly things are working well, but I have a problem with the touchpad (or whatever it's called) - whenever I use it for moving the mouse pointer I accidentally tap on it - basically I am clicking all over the place by accident. So I want to disable the tap-as-click (after all, I have buttons for clicks too).

I open up "Mouse and Touchpad" and on the Touchpad tab I check "Disable touchpad when typing" and UNcheck "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad". This does not achieve anything.

The only piece of code I had which worked at all was to completely disable the touchpad by removing the driver - but that is no use since I WANT the mousing ability, just not the tap. In fact, even that would be good if I could still use the little blue stick thing and the other buttons - but it disabled them too.

Tried installing touchpad indicator but it didn't seem to want to install.

There were suggestions to put stuff into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d so I edited 50-synaptics.conf and added the line

Option "TapButton1" "0"

But it didn't work and I'm not surprised since the place, syntax and values were all a guess really...

Any ideas? This is really annoying.

Thanks

Kibi