Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

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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

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