I use the 'synclient' tool to switch the touchpad on and off. It's annoying
during normal use for me - I keep touching the touchpad and sending the
mouse & focus elsewhere. So when I have a mouse plugged in ( usually ), I
go:

synclient TouchPadOff=1

When I remove the mouse, I go:

synclient TouchPadOff=0

synclient can also enable the 'tap-to-click' functionality.

I guess it would be a reasonable little project to turn this functionality
into an Enlightenment module ( even better - being able to configure this
switch when a mouse is added / removed ), but I haven't had the time for
hacking in C for quite a while, and I'm relatively happy to trigger the
above with a shell script. Admittedly OSX users roll their eyes when they
see me do this :P

Dan

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Wido <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would guess that gnome has some kind of synaptics included (synaptics as
> in touchpad, not the package manager) and that keeps running/configured
> after you close gnome, and stays like that when you start E
>
> I think there is a synaptics daemon that you can run from cli instead of
> putting into xorg. You could create a .desktop file and tell E that launch
> that at start
>
> 2014-10-18 12:52 GMT-03:00 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]>:
>
> > Morten Nilsen ha scritto il 18/10/2014 alle 16:02:
> > > I seem to have some strange behaviour here..
> > > After logging out of gnome and into e, my touchpad works with tap to
> > > click and horizontal scrolling.
> > >
> > > But if I log straight into e after booting, I only have vertical
> > > scrolling and I have to press the physical button to click.
> > >
> > > There is an option in gnome to enable tap to click, which is default
> off.
> > >
> > > Is there some way to get these features to work as expected in e, or is
> > > my quickest option to run gnome-settings-daemon, which I presume will
> > > have some effect on this?
> > >
> >
> > Just create a configuration file in /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d (at least on
> > debian, don't know if your distro put them elsewhere) and list all the
> > options you need. For example this is the content of my
> > /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf:
> >
> > Section "InputClass"
> >         Identifier "touchpad catchall"
> >         MatchIsTouchpad "on"
> >         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
> >         Driver "synaptics"
> >         Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
> >         Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
> > EndSection
> >
> > In my case I disable tapping and enable only the vertical scrolling,
> > basically the configuration you don't want :D
> >
> > --
> > Massimo Maiurana
> > Ragusa (RG)
> >
> >
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