On Wednesday 22 November 2006 16:41, Trey Sizemore wrote: >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. Unforch I neglected to say that yes it was, but its all ghosted because I apparently need to add an 'Option "UseShm" "true"' in my xorg.conf, but I've done that to no avail. I think I might see the problem after some manpage reading, it seems that both Section InputDevice stanza's are claiming they are coredevice, and there's supposed to be only one. I'll check that the next time I boot it up as I spent the afternoon talking a buck out of his hide since he didn't need it anymore. Its deer season here and the next door neighbor gave me a small buck last night. >-- >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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
