How do I disable Touchpad corner functionalities? (e.g. copy, paste, context, right-click)

Using my touchpad on my Unity desktop I have discovered the following:

Tapping the corners of the touchpad results in:

  • Top-right corner: Paste command.
  • Top-left corner: Copy command.
  • Bottom-right corner: Right-click or Context Menu commands.

Obviously, it's intentional however there must be settings to change these. I've looked through Settings->Mouse & Compiz Settings Manager but failed to find anything.

How do I disable these triggers?


In terminal, type: synclient RTCornerButton=0. This solved the problem on me.

Execute synclient -l to list all configurations.


Any changes you make with synclient are lost after reboot. To make the solution posted by Cyron permanent, paste the synclient command(s) to a shell script and add the shell script to your Startup Applications in Unity.

Note that the script has to start with #!/bin/bash, and that you may change permissions to executable to work properly.