Re: Inadvertent 'back' with Synaptics touchpad

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Andrew Jordan <aj <at> dogzero.com> writes:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm sure this will have been covered before, but I just can't find
> anything - probably because I can't think of a restrictive enough set of
> search criteria...
> 
> I'm running FC2 on a Tadpole Talin laptop which has a touchpad.  I'm using
> the Synaptics driver for the touchpad and it works pretty well MOST of the
> time.  But sometimes, when I'm using a web browser (Firefox 0.9.3) if I
> move the cursor across the screen to the left using the touchpad, it will
> have the effect of hitting the 'go back one page' arrow from the
> navigation toolbar (or pressing [ALT] + [Left Arrow] if you prefer.)  This
> only happens sometimes and I guess must be fixable using synclient, but I
> really can't see what setting(s) could be causing this beahviour.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew.
> 

This has been discussed before ( I can't remember the thread). However,
In Firefox, open the configuration in the browser (about: config) and change the
following:

 "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action"    0

"mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines"    true

HTH,
Partha




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