On Sunday 07 December 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Linuxguy123 wrote: >> You obviously have NO understanding of how frustrating it is to use a >> laptop and have the cursor jump to the wrong position about 30x per day >> to make this statement. >> >> You have ZERO user empathy which is pretty darn scary considering you >> seem to be on the Fedora developer team. I highly suggest that you examine >> your behavior on this list. > >I was not the one who made the decision to turn off SHMConfig by default, >nor am I the ksynaptics maintainer (who is the person responsible for >keeping it up to date with current versions of the synaptics driver). Don't >shoot the messenger. > >And I have a laptop with a touchpad myself, I almost always use it with an >attached USB mouse and I never felt the need to disable the touchpad. (I >did disable tapping, because that annoys me even when I actually use the >touchpad, and I posted clear instructions for how to do that.) > > Kevin Kofler So do I Kevin, and a readily available method of shutting the touchpad off, preferably forever, should be part of all installs. I don't know how many times I have posted and looked like a blithering idiot because my post made no sense. I do my best to keep my thumbs away from that SOB, even using a finger to tap the space bar when I'm composing an email, only to have it do something off the wall cuz a finger or thumb got too close to it. It may just take a notion to highlight all the message I'm working on, and then delete it with the next keypress. Or it may decide to focus switch me from window 8 where I usually run the email agent, to window 3 and what I type for 2 or 3 seconds becomes a shell command. That has in fact has caused 2 complete reinstalls on that machine cuz I had no idea what it may have done other than some things no longer worked. Its a very unpleasant experience at best. It might be a toleratable situation if it actually had to be tapped, but the one I have in an HP dv5120us, only needs a wave in its general direction. When I had F6 on it, synaptics in my rc.local could disable it, but someone, in their infinite wisdom, apparently took synaptics out of the later repo's, which IMO converts a perfectly capable laptop with a radio based usb mouse into an absolute damned nightmare to try and use in a productive manner. When its dvd writer failed, I asked the tech if he could unplug it since I used a separate mouse, but the CC firedog dummy, in addition to using a junk screwdriver to open mine and replace the dvd, had to admit he didn't know how to do that. Unreal. With synaptics running to disable it, the machine is a productive machine, without it, my vocabulary of unprintable words is very rapidly refreshed. -- 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) "Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time." -- a coffee cup -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
