On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:52:19 -0500 Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > Yes, it's not immediately apparent. You need to go to KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Touchpad. All the settings can be enabled and disabled from there. -- Cheers, Trey ---- "I think it is true for all _n. I was just playing it safe with _n >= 3 because I couldn't remember the proof." -- Baker, Pure Math 351a Linux laptop 2.6.16.21-0.25-default i686 GNU/Linux 4:40pm up 7 days 20:28, 6 users, load average: 4.02, 1.31, 0.81