Fred James wrote:
> The feature is the problem ...
>
> The feature is the "scroll" area(s) on the touch pad (or more likely,
> in the touch pad software/configuration?)
> Is there a way to eliminate this feature ... perhaps by reducing the
> size of the "area(s)" to the point of non-existence?
>
> Various searches so far have only yielded the usual "how to set up a
> touch pad/mouse" stuff, which never even seem to mention the idea of a
> "scroll area(s)", or (oh, joy!) a "right click" area.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> Regards
> Fred James
Got a solution that I am still testing to see if it introduces any other
unwanted feature, but so far so good ... I added the following line to
.bashrc in my home directory ...
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 HorizEdgeScroll=0
I got there by "man -k" on a couple of things, and finding synaptics(5)
and syclient(1) of interest ... on my system at least (your mileage may
vary).
Among other things "syclient -l | grep -i edge" reveled the values
VertEdgeScroll = 1 and HorizEdgeScroll = 1
and synaptics(5) shows those two to be "bool", thus the line above
(included in .bashrc), which as I said, seems to be working as expected
(so far).
By the way ... this requires SNMConfig (also "bool") to on, for the user
to be able to do this for her/him self ... otherwise it would have to be
done as a system wide change ... this is considered to be dangerous on
multiuser systems ... just a thought.
Thanks
Regards
Fred James
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