On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 18:22 +0100, Stefano Cavallari wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010 18:02:28 Wendell Nichols wrote: > > I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm > > away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the > > touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the > > desktop. All of these are accidents but I just can't keep from > > accidentally striking the scroll areas of the pad, and depending on > > where the cursor is, madly switching desktops and apps. So I'm > > constantly having to reposition myself on the correct app and restore > > hidden windows. > > Is there any way to disable this behaviour? > > I use fedora 10 and 11 with kde. > > wcn > > > check > $ man synclient > and > $ man synaptics > I use KDE Autostart feature to launch a small scripts which sets the touchpad > for me > for your case something like: > > #!/bin/sh > synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 HorizEdgeScroll=0 > (not tested) > HTH, > Stefano Cavallari In GNOME, at least, the mouse configurator in System->Preferences has a Touchpad tab with a checkbox for "disable touchpad while typing", which runs syndaemon. It also has checkboxes to enable and disable various scrolling areas. I don't know if KDE offers the same options. If not, also "man syndaemon". -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines