Can i actually turn off touch mode in Ubuntu 18.04.3? My current Wacom is Intuos 5 touch s pth-450. Was trying to disable it in Tweak mode and also in dconf editor. So far i still have touch mode.
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Ubuntu 18.04.3 does not offer a graphical control for disabling touch on these kinds of tablets. It is, however, possible to disable touch through xsetwacom or with a custom xorg.conf.d configuration.
xsetwacom
You can use the xsetwacom command to immediately enable or disable touch. The setting will only persist for your current login session. See man xsetwacom for more details.
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch" touch offxorg.conf.d
You can use an xorg.conf.d file to change the default touch setting for your tablet. See man wacom and man xorg.conf.d for more details. The following snippet should be saved as a file inside the xorg.conf.d directory (e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-wacom-touchpad.conf)
# Disable touch on all Wacom touchpads by default.
#
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Wacom Touchpad Disable" MatchDriver "wacom" MatchIsTouchpad "true" Option "Touch" "off"
EndSection
