Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
Hello All,
Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the
tap option on my touch pad?
I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or
some
part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me
typing in
another part of the text that I have already typed. I thought I could
live with it but I really can't :) . I tried changing my typing
so my
wrists are up higher but no luck. So now I would like to try turning
off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am
better
off without it.
I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000
Is this a Synaptics touchpad? If so, you probably have the
synaptics RPM installed. It includes a program called syndaemon,
which disables the touchpad while you are typing.
I haven't felt the need, but it might do the job for you.
Here is what happened when I tried to run syndaemon:
[user@Blade ~]$ sudo syndaemon -t -d
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
I tried to find SHMConfig but didn't see a man page for it or
couldn't locate it anywhere. Can you tell me what I might be
missing? I also didn't see the syndaemon in the services list via
the gui if that helps.
Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
...
EndSection
and add the line
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
in a line between the Section and EndSection lines. Then restart X.
See /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/README for more things you can
configure.
syndaemon doesn't come with a startup script. You can invoke it in
/etc/rc.local.
Thanks for all the help, it does exactly what I want it to do. Sorry it
took me so long to respond but I finally got a chance to reboot my
machine after changing my xorg.conf file. Forgive me for not being able
to know how to restart the xserver from the command line :)
Thanks,
Lovell
