On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:44 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> David Kramer wrote:
> > I have a Dell Latitude D820 running F8, but I have the same problem with
> > pretty much every touchpad. The problem is not how much the cursor
> > moves as I move my fingers on the pad. There's plenty of documentation
> > on that.
> >
> > My problem is that as I type, I sometimes find the cursor flying to a
> > completely different region, so if I'm typing an email, all of a sudden
> > my typing is going three rows above where I was typing, like the
> > pressure of my hands on the laptop case is enough to trigger the
> > touchpad. I would like to change the amount of pressure to be
> > considered mouse down.
> >
> > Looking at the documentation for synaptics, it looks like there's a
> > setting called FingerLow and another called FingerHigh which I think
> > will adjust the pressure needed. I didn't want to try it without asking
> > first, lets I render X windows unusable.
> >
> > So will this do what I want?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> try installing gsynaptics and then run it. you can disable tapping which
> will help. i had to do this to a laptop recently.
It also allows adjusting sensitivity.
Also check out syndaemon (part of the synaptics package). It disables
the touchpad dynamically while the keyboard is in active use.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
