On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:43 +0100, Robert E A Harvey wrote:
I'm running openSuse 11 on an HP 2133 netbook. Not without some oddities.
When I first installed it I could not find any way to turn off 'tapping' on the touchpad. I performed an edit to b /etc/X11/xorg.conf. and creating Option "MaxTapTime" "0".
Some weeks later my login went horribly wrong and I ended up creating a new one. I suspect I ran sax2 at around that time to, trying to fix the first login.
Anyway tapping is back. Now I am sure that in the plethora of configuraiton tools scattered about I have seen a tick box to turn tapping off and thought 'Ah. That's where I should have gone instead of hacking config files'. Can I find it again? No.
Where do I turn tapping on and off?
Bob Harvey
This is how I do it. 1. Create a script with the following contents. #!/bin/bash synclient TouchpadOff=2 2. Save the file. I called mine tpad_off 3. Set the file to be executable. One way to do that is to right click the file in Nautilus - choose properties from the menu. Click the permissions tab and enable the Execute option. An even easier way is to open a terminal session and type chmod 0755 tpad_off. 4. Open the Control Center - Choose System - Sessions. Then add your script to the Startup Programs. That's it. Every time you login the script will run and disable tapping on the touchpad. You can still use the touchpad as mouse and the accompanying buttons will function. The only thing that will be disabled will be that vile tapping option. Since I discovered the Touchpadoff=2 parameter, I actually like my Touchpad now. HTH Chuck -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org