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2007/4/24, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>: |
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> Hello. |
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> I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically, |
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> I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they |
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> mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then |
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> interpreted as a click. This annoys the hell out of me, as I accidently |
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> tap the touchpad when I type something and as a result, I continue to |
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> type at the wrong location. Anyway, enough of the whining - I'd like to |
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> disable tapping... |
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> On various places on the internet, like http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112 |
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> or http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/, I found, that it should be |
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> good enough, to add |
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> Option "MaxTapTime" "0" |
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> to the Section "InputDevice" in the xorg.conf file. As you can see in |
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> my xorg.conf file at <http://askwar.pastebin.ca/453131>, I did that. |
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> Nonetheless, I'm sadly still able to use that annoying tapping feature :( |
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> As this did not work, I tried to use graphical configuration tools |
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> like gsynaptics, ksynaptics or synclient to access the touchpad. All |
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> of these tools require, that |
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> Option "SHMConfig" "on" |
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> is added to the xorg.conf. Instead of "on", I also tried "true", "1" |
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> and "yes". None of these work - all the time, when I run one of the |
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> aforementioned tools, I get an error message, stating something reg. |
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> SHMConfig. For synclient, it is: |
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> alexander@blattli ~ $ synclient -m 20 |
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> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? |
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> I'm using on ~x86: |
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> alexander@blattli /etc/X11 $ X -version |
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> X Window System Version 7.2.0 |
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> Release Date: 22 January 2007 |
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> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2 |
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> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.045 i686 |
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> Current Operating System: Linux blattli 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.neu.001 #3 Sun Apr 15 11:44:24 CEST 2007 i686 |
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> Build Date: 19 March 2007 |
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> Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org |
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> to make sure that you have the latest version. |
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> Module Loader present |
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> Is anyone able to configure a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, any idea |
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> what I'm doing wrong? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Alexander Skwar |
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This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with |
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"ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it |
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works, at least for me. |
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