Comment 31 for bug 386017

THANK YOU x1000!

I added the PPA above to my software sources, installed the PPA versions of gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center (karmic-proposed's gnome-settings-daemon has a newer version number so I had to "downgrade" to the PPA), and now everything works like a champ.

This patch should be slipped into proper Karmic if at all possible - touchpad side-scrolling that easily triggers right-click even when tap-to-click is completely turned off in the Touchpad settings can't be considered anything other than a bug. Turning the "functionality" off requires the use of the command line every time the laptop is booted, or wakes from suspend. "Out of the box", a standard install of Karmic will blatantly defy my control panel settings disabling tap-to click. This does not reflect well on Ubuntu, as clearly lower right corner tap-to-right-click is still tap-to-click. I cannot count the number of times that I've ended up inadvertently clicking "back" in the right-click menu while scrolling through a web page, sometimes losing the contents of text entry fields in the process. This patch is a sanity saver.

Running Karmic 64-bit on a Dell Inspiron 1420n that shipped with Ubuntu installed.