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... > > I solved the mouse stud problem by removing the little rubber knob on top, and now it does not intrude on my life :) I don't want to disable the touchpad, I need it because when sitting in an armchair (where I work for many hours a day because I'm recovering from back surgery) I just don't have a convenient place for a regular mouse. I basically like the touchpad; I can scroll vertically and horizontally and it automatically stops working when I type. The ONLY big problem I have is that if I change applications by clicking on the task bar; it scrolls through several apps or desktops as I move from the taskbar to the desktop! It does this because the taskbar accidentally pics up a command to scroll. I just need to get the taskbar to stop interpreting the mouse scrolling input. You would thinnk that would be a taskbar setting but there appear to be very few settings available for it. Meybe there is an better taskbar widget... I'll look around. Its such a small thing... and its so annoying that you would expect the designer of the task switcher to have considered it... unless they've never used a laptop! Onwards and downwards... wcn -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
