On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Patrick Doyle wrote:
Hello all, I am running FC5 on a laptop and have learned, accidentally, and then experimentally, that mouse gestures are enabled on my touchpad in Firefox. (They may be enabled elsewhere, but, so far, this is where I have noticed it, and have found it most annoying). Can anybody suggest a way to disable this feature? I've poked around a bit and seen web pages that indicate that gestures are enabled via a plugin (now known as an "extension"), but I don't see any extensions labeled "Mouse Gestures". (There are a bunch related to languages, and one related to examining DOM I don't see anything about gestures under "Preferences" either. For those who don't know, "Mouse Gestures" allow me to click on a page somewhere near the bottom, and drag the mouse to the left, in order to go "back" one web page. Similarly, if I click and drag to the right, I can go forward a web page (provided there is a page to go forward to). The problem is, on my little mouse pad, I frequently tap somewhere near the bottom and move my finger to the left in order to move the mouse to the left. This gets interpreted as a gesture, and I go back a page. Any pointers? (ha ha -- get it?)
The synaptics touchpad is controlled by the programs in the synaptics RPM. They are reasonably well documented in /usr/share/doc/synaptics-*. Lots of settings are configurable.
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-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
