There are no options to disable 'tap-to-click' in Mouse and Touch-pad settings, but there have always been in previous Ubuntu releases.
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Just registered to spread the solution to this annyoing problem.
Make sure you have package xserver-xorg-input-libinput installed. Then you need to remove package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and restart. After the restart you have all the options back in the GUI.
Everything is handled by xserver-xorg-input-libinput now. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is interfering this.
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1In my case, xserver-xorg-input-libinput was already installed. All I had to do was remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and reboot. Thanks! – user308393 Apr 14 '17 at 12:01
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thanks a lot, this helped. how this managed to pass beta tests is beyond me... – stebu92 Apr 18 '17 at 08:39
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This also works on Ubuntu 17.10. I just had to remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and restart, and all the settings were there! – ketil Feb 03 '18 at 08:14
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It is also possible to disable tap-to-click for the synaptics driver by changing its configuration in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to set Option "MaxTapTime" "0". Here is some documetation on synaptics driver configuration options.
Switching from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to xserver-xorg-input-libinput did give me the option in the settings UI to disable tap-to-click, which worked; however, the driver switch also resulted in the loss of the ability to right-click with a two-finger click.
This was for a Dell XPS 13.
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false. Does this work? – Seth Apr 13 '17 at 15:54