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RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

nelz — Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:48 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:48 pm

Make the most of it. It's a one day special!

Re: RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Nigel — Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:10 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:10 pm

Love the new sig, nelz

Re: RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

nelz — Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:01 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:01 pm

Nigel wrote:

Do you know of anyone who actually likes the "tap" feature ?

Plumbers or dancers?

Nigel wrote:

nelz - am I right in thinking you use an ibook ? What (if anything) do you do about the touchpad on that ? (I'm considering investing in an ibook if I get a decent Xmas bonus this year).

Nothing, I downloaded an xorg.conf from http://www.alessandroronchi.net/wiki/LinuxOnIBookG4 and it just worked. The single mouse button is a bit of a pain, but it is easy enough to map F11/F12 to the middle/right buttons.

RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Nigel — Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:45 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:45 pm

Even better
Will give this a try when I get home.

Do you know of anyone who actually likes the "tap" feature ?

nelz - am I right in thinking you use an ibook ? What (if anything) do you do about the touchpad on that ? (I'm considering investing in an ibook if I get a decent Xmas bonus this year).

RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

nelz — Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:38 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:38 am

According to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad you can disable the tap-to-annoy-you feature by setting MaxTapTime to zero in xorg.conf.

RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Nigel — Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:13 am

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:13 am

That looks promising... I'll give it a try this evening.

Many thanks

RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Nobber — Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:42 am

Author: Nobber

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:42 am

A few years ago I used tpconfig to turn off the tap-to-click feature on my HP Omnibook's touchpad. It worked fine.

RE: Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Rhakios — Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:17 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:17 am

Indeed, with SuSE9.2 and 9.3 I had to do a lot of fiddling to get my touchpad on my Toshiba laptop to work sensibly. SuSE10 is rather nice in that it has relieved me of the need to do this, it works just fine

Re: RE: Synaptics touchpad

Nigel — Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:14 am

Author: Nigel

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:14 am

nelz wrote:

I don't particularly like trackpads, I much preferred the nipple on my old Thinkpad.

Toshiba also used to use nipples, 'twas a dark day when they switched to trackpads.
Turning the trackpad off completely on this laptop is a last-ditch solution - I'd really prefer to tune it so I can live with it. That way if I forget to take a USB mouse with me I can still use the laptop.

RE: Synaptics touchpad

nelz — Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:05 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:05 am

There is a way to turn it off, I did so on another laptop. ISTR it was somewhere in xorg.conf.

I don't particularly like trackpads, I much preferred the nipple on my old Thinkpad.

Synaptics touchpad

Nigel — Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:45 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:45 pm

Hi Folks,

I'm happily running SuSE 9.2 on my laptop, usually with a USB mouse. The machine also has a Synaptics touchpad which I use when I can't be bothered to plug the mouse in.
However, I'm getting really frustrated with it because it's too sensitive. And I can't stand the "tap to click" function - I keep clicking when I don't want to. And I'm forever brushing it with my palms whilst typing (and it still works even with the USB mouse plugged in).

Under Windows, the Synaptics driver allows you to turn tapping off and to adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad. Is there an equivalent for Linux ? If so, could someone please point me in the right direction ?

Many thanks,

Nigel.