[TriLUG] Notebook pad type mice

[Steve Litt]

Thanks Alan,

Your post plus that of Ian Kilgore helped me shut off that nasty tap, which 
solved a BIG problem for me. Thanks. The synclient program mentioned by Ian 
contains a property not mentioned in your email, namely, TouchpadOff. If it's 
0, you get full touchpad with (ugh) tapping. If it's 1, you get no touchpad 
at all. But if it's 2, you get the touchpad without tapping, which is just 
what I want:

Option "TouchpadOff" "2"

Meanwhile, a lot of the options you mention below will be helpful, especially 
BottomEdge. The geniuses who designed my computer made no transition between 
the pad and the buttons, so when I click one of the buttons, my big fat thumb 
hits the pad and knocks the pointer away just before the click registers, 
thereby doing the wrong thing (like aborting instead of saving changes :-).

Tomorrow I'll experiment with BottomEdge to see if I can reserve a DMZ between 
pad and buttons. Another thing I might experiment with is Fingerhigh, so that 
merely touching it with my palm while typing doesn't move the mouse. As U can 
tell, my hands are too big and fat to use this computer, but yours and Ian's 
input will make it a productive tool for me.

So thanks a million.

SteveT


On Tuesday 14 November 2006 08:39 pm, Alan Porter wrote:
>  > It looks like there's an option for the Synaptics Touchpad in
>  > xorg.conf that turns off tap-to-click, called MaxTapTime:
>  > ...
>  > I didn't see anything specific to sensitivity though.
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> Somewhere over the last year or two, I ran across some other
> options for the Synaptics touch pad.  I am not currently using
> them, but I left them in my xorg.conf for future reference.
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> Maybe they'll help you, too.
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> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier    "synaptics_touchpad"
>   Driver        "synaptics"
>   Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
>   Option        "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
> # Option        "LeftEdge"      "1700"
> # Option        "RightEdge"     "5300"
> # Option        "TopEdge"       "1700"
> # Option        "BottomEdge"    "4200"
> # Option        "FingerLow"     "25"
> # Option        "FingerHigh"    "30"
> # Option        "MaxTapTime"    "180"
> # Option        "MaxTapMove"    "220"
> # Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
> # Option        "MinSpeed"      "0.06"
> # Option        "MaxSpeed"      "0.12"
> # Option        "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
> # Option        "SHMConfig"     "on"
> ## Option       "Repeater"      "/dev/ps2mouse"
> EndSection
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