Marking as triaged. glentrob has offered several potential workarounds/fixes that sound doable, but will need some additional research.
It also sounds like having some settings in a GUI admin tool would give the best all around solution. Perhaps this can be worked on for Gutsy+1. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- Touchpad default settings are horrible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs