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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:50:52 Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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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 |
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> http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112 or |
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> http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/, I found, that it should be good |
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> 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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From askwar.pastebin.ca/453131: |
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Section "ServerLayout" |
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[SNIP] |
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InputDevice "Maus" "CorePointer" |
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#InputDevice "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore" |
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# InputDevice "Maus" "AlwaysCore" |
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# InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" |
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[SNIP] |
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Section "Module" |
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[SNIP] |
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# Load "synaptics" |
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Which shows that both the loading of the synaptics driver and the synaptics |
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inputdevice under serverlayout are commented. Not sure if this is just a |
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mistake in what you pasted or if it's the actual cause... |
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A MaxTapTime of 0 does work for me. From `man synaptics` : |
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TouchpadOff (Integer) |
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Switch off the touchpad. Valid values are: |
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[...] |
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2 Only tapping and scrolling is switched off |
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Sounds like that too is what you want. |
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Also I'm wondering why you would use the synaptics driver at all if you don't |
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want any of it's features. At least on my laptop the ordinary mouse driver |
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works fine for the touchpad if it wasn't for the fact that I do want those |
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features.. ;) |
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Finally just to be absolutely certain that you're editing the right config |
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file.. |
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# grep "Using config" /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
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Bo Andresen |
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