On Monday 22 January 2007 08:06, Dotan Cohen wrote: >On 22/01/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Monday 22 January 2007 02:59, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >On Monday 22 January 2007 02:06, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> I've got a Dell 6400 / E1505 laptop. The great engineers at Dell >> >> put the touchpad so close to the keyboard that I'm hitting it every >> >> five minutes by mistake. Is there and _easy_ way to enable/disable >> >> it? Like a keyboard shortcut, hardware button, or panel applet >> >> (KDE)? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. >> > >> >Is there a key programmed (in windows) to turn it off? There is on >> > my Acer, and it works equally well in linux. The ancient Packard >> > Bell doesn't have such a key, so I suffer as you do. >> > >> >Anne >> >> I'm using a "synaptics" utility, kills that bad puppy completely. But >> it puts an icon in the tray you can click on to re-enable it. Using >> an optical wireless mouse plugged into a usb port, the only time I >> ever clicked on it was to see if it worked, it did. > >Thanks, Gene. How do I start synaptics? I've installed it, but I don't >see anything in the menus nor in Kcontrol. Also, typing synaptics at >the command line returns a command not found error. I'm not sure Dotan. Its not being started from /etc/init.d, nothing in there. Its an rpm for FC5, synaptics-0.14.4-2.1 according to an rpm -q synaptics. It installs itself into the kde control center, under peripherals->touchpad so it can be controlled & configured from there too. There should be additional messages about it in the list archives, I generated some of them at the time, most of a year ago IIRC. And I believe it must do a similar install on gnome too. For kde, its icon is on the task bar just left of the clock when its active. >Dotan Cohen > >http://what-is-what.com/what_is/black_light.html >http://nirot.com -- 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 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
