Touchpad: How to completely disable two- and three-finger gestures AND middle-click?

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First off, I love Manjaro and I am truly grateful for anyone’s work contributing to this rad OS. Really, really thankful.

Lately, though …

Since the last big update (something like a month ago) my touchpad absolutely works against me. I guess it has to do with Wayland taking over more and more (not my favourite direction, anyway) — now tabs close, things get pasted, right-click context menus will only open every other time, and so on, and so forth. It is actually disturbing and interrupting all my workflows.

So, what I want to do is, deactivate or disable any form of gestures (two-, three- or more fingers) and also, switch off the middle click entirely.

Any idea, anyone? I’ve searched quite a lot online already, to no avail. so, any help or simply a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated.

I work exclusively with the touchpad, so, any advice involving a mouse won’t be helpful.

Thanks in advance to anyone finding the time to help me out here; I’m desperate.

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I just checked my touchpad settings and it seems that “tap-to-click” has been re-enabled. (System Settings → Mouse and Touchpad → Touchpad). I normally turn this off to avoid such inconveniences. :wink:

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I’ve not tried it myself, and you may already have seen this, but there is a possibly related discussion here: Is there a way to disable trackpad gestures? - #3 by breakingspell - Help - KDE Discuss

which refers to a plugin which might help: Installation - InputActions main

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Thank you for getting back, but I do need tap-to-click. I only need to disable multi-finger gestures and middle click.

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Ah, this looks quite interesting, thank you! I hadn’t seen it and will try my luck with it asap. :folded_hands:

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XFCE does not have gestures at all…unless one installs and configures them.
I know, you are on Plasma, i will see myself out :smiley:

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Oh yes, I would have loved to remain on Xorg instead of Wayland, not just for this reason, but I like Plasma way too much, and they decided to follow the Wayland path. Thank you anyway :slight_smile: