[opensuse-factory] Should touchpad padding be disabled by default?
On 12/06/2009 04:37 PM, Clayton wrote:
You can use Synaptiks or kcm_touchpad (I had the best luck with the former) from kde4:community repository - or Touchfreeze from Packman repository.
So.... to accommodate the Gnome standard the KDE users have to install a community package from a community repo? That seems like a poor decision.
I HATE touchpads, and unfortunately, there's not a hardware switch to turn off most of them. The KDE setup, which allows you to turn off a touchpad or mouse, DOESN'T work. Synaptiks does.....thankfully! Fred -- "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." --George Washington -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
I HATE touchpads, and unfortunately, there's not a hardware switch to turn off most of them. The KDE setup, which allows you to turn off a touchpad or mouse, DOESN'T work. Synaptiks does.....thankfully!
On my Netbook there is a Function+F key combination that can be used to turn the touchpad on/off, and it works well with openSUSE 11.2. It didn't work on previous versions/distros. I can understand why some might hate touchpads.. it's pretty darn easy to accidentally brush them while typing and your cursor ends up elsewhere in your document :-P C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
I HATE touchpads, and unfortunately, there's not a hardware switch to turn off most of them. The KDE setup, which allows you to turn off a touchpad or mouse, DOESN'T work. Synaptiks does.....thankfully!
On my Netbook there is a Function+F key combination that can be used to turn the touchpad on/off, and it works well with openSUSE 11.2. It didn't work on previous versions/distros.
I can understand why some might hate touchpads.. it's pretty darn easy to accidentally brush them while typing and your cursor ends up elsewhere in your document :-P
Whether or not the touchpad is annoying probably depends on the hardware. I can't remember accidently hitting the touchpad on my laptop. On a different laptop I hit it all the time. That model has a hardware switch to turn the touchpad off though. So I guess the engineers actually tried to use their own hardware ;-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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