On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 18:02 -0500, Rik Scarborough wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 11:57 -0500, Rik Scarborough wrote: > > > > > I've installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on a Gateway 1625. The trackpad > > > seems to be way too sensitive, especially to "taps". Often enough to be > > > unusable, simple picking up my finger while moving the mouse pointer > > > around will be interpreted as a mouse button click. Is there anyway of > > > turning that off or changing the sensitivity in Solaris? > > > > > > ~Rik > > > _______________________________________________ > > > laptop-discuss mailing list > > > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > > > > You can do it the same way as you do it on all *NIX boxes, open up the > > menu, go to the preferences menu, then click on Mouse - then toggle the > > slider bars to your desired preference, then close. > > > > Matthew > > > > I had tried that and my first attempts to change the settings did not > get it to a point where I was comfortable with it. And did not see a > way to turn off the tapping the pad feature. I'll play around with > the sensitivity and see if I can get used to it with the sensitivity > all the way up. > > Thanks for the reply.
The tapping pad feature can be turned off by through an xorg.conf feature; IIRC I'm sure it is listed somewhere on Ubuntu. Matthew
