Re: disabling touchpad on laptop

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On Wednesday 22 November 2006 08:10, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> I would like to disable my touchpad mouse on my laptop or, at least,
>> the "tap" function of this one.
>>
>> I put TRACKPAD_OPT=notap in my /etc/sysconfig/mouse file but without
>> any success...
>> Thanks for help. I run FC4.
>
>For FC5 and FC6, there's an application called ksynaptics which does
> what you want very easily. It has also an "smart" option that will turn
> off the touchpad (completely or tap only) automaticaly when you start
> typing something, enabling it again when you stop typing. This is great
> to avoid accidental taps or cursor movements while you are typing.
>Don't know if it's available for FC4.
>
>[]'s
>Marcelo

How do you call it once this package is installed?  I have installed it on 
my FC5 lappy, but its nowhere to be found.


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