On Saturday 16 January 2010, Tim wrote: >On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they >> use a mouse. > >That is so tempting... The simple solutions are often the best. > >I've tried reconfiguring mine, but that causes its own problems: >Sometimes you need to use it, because you don't have the mouse, and you >really don't want to have to reconfigure things, yet again. Disabling >the pad while typing adds annoying delays to your editing if you >actually do want to want to use the pad. Disabling tapping doesn't >disable tapping 100% of the time on my system. I wish it did, I have >real buttons on my laptop that don't accidentally trigger, but the pad >does. > >Can we design something worse than the mouse? >Yes, here's a slow-as-stuck-in-molasses twiddle stick in the middle of >the keyboard, that's worse than steering the inertia-riddled ship in the >Asteroids game. >Can we design something worse than the stick? >Yes, here's a touch pad. Sensitive to the movement of a fly, five feet >away. >I dread to think what comes next... If that is a synaptics touch pad, and most are, there is a utility by the same name that can shut that SOB off. I have an HP lappy that is completely unusable when its enabled. Upstate MI ticks can trigger it crawling around in your shorts. Install it, and I use one of those miniature M$ travel mice, the one that stores the USB dongle in a pocket on the bottom of it, which also shuts the mouse off so your batteries will last a few months too. -- 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) 1.79 x 10^12 furlongs per fortnight -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
