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My problem was that *sometimes* - on left clicking and tapping (which is how I select text for copying)- the search box popped up.
I've tried everything above - didn't work - but noticed the following.
*If you tap with two fingers, or sometimes just one, THEN left click (in that order) - the search bar pops up (on the left of screen)
*If you tap with three fingers, or sometimes just two THEN left click (in that order) - the action centre pops up (or the right of screen)
I have a Synaptics touchpad with the latest recommended driver.
I think that two finger tap then left click is an undocumented command to open the search box.
And that three finger tap then right click is an undocumented command to open the action centre.
And that sometimes - the touchpad interprets one finger tap as a two finger tap, and sometimes interprets a two finger tap as a three finger one.
My guess is this is a Synaptics problem.
My solutions:
a) To select text, use right click and swipe, OR
b) To select text, tap first then left click.
doing in in that order DOESN'T activate the unwanted popups.
Really frustating as my habit for selecting text of twenty years' standing now doesn't work properly. I hope Synaptics will release a driver one day that fixes this.
BTW the old synaptics driver doesn't have this problem - but is defective in other ways.
Last edited by bunter; 27 Jan 2016 at 21:58.