ok, I should have seen that this was another issue, and I know nothing about it.. but it took me a couple of weeks to find the Option "MaxTapTime" "0" way to turn off the dang touch pad.
It's just generally broken, and I was happy to actually stumble across somebody saying similar stuff. -- synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to https://launchpad.net/bugs/47971 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs