Thanks all - will investigate tonight, but I'm sure I can tweak to my satisfaction.
The disable-when-typing feature sounds nice - I have incredibly fat fingers... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jarod Wilson Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 10:47 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Super annoying touchpad behavior Vanco, Don wrote: > Well, my xorg.conf file does show the synaptics defined under "InputDevice", > yet the "real time" tweak tool synclient doesn't seem to see the hardware > [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]# synclient -h > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? > ....so apparently some man page reading and driver config fiddling is going > to be required. A quick scan of the driver options shows a typical > eleventy-billion options to parse..... > http://linux.die.net/man/5/synaptics I believe its simply 'Option "SHMConfig" "enable"' (or possibly "true" or "on") in xorg.conf to enable shared memory access for the synaptics tools. Not enabled by default, because its a security hole, iirc. But that'll allow things like synclient, gsynaptics, etc., to twiddle touchpad features. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Baroti > Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 10:24 AM > To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Super annoying touchpad behavior > > Hi Don, > > I noticed the same Firefox problem on a Dell C640 laptop with the > Synaptics touchpad - running Fedora Core7... > > -Steve. > > Vanco, Don wrote: >> I've got an HP nc6230 laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. While in FireFox a >> sweep from right to left results in a "back" command to the browser. I'm >> used to the (right hand) "edge" focus area under the Windows driver >> providing acceleration for page up/page down (in Windows), but in Linux it >> seems as though the entire touchpad is psychotic. I have tried to narrow my >> field of use on the touchpad, but it seem to do no good. >> So I was wondering: >> - is this something others have expereinced >> - is there way to turn off this behavior >> >> I don't seem to see a module loaded specific to the touchpad.... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
