Fred A. Miller wrote:

David C. Rankin wrote:

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Felix Möller wrote:

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Hi,

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have a look at "man syndaemon" it is possible to deactivate the touchpad while typing...

@Stefan: Shouldn't this be configured automatically?

HTH Felix Möller THANK YOU!!!

I have always wanted a way to do this to keep the cursor from jumping 1/2 page in some direction due to an accidental brushing of the touchpad with the palm of my thumb. It had just never bubbled up as a priority for me to track down. It works just great:

syndaemon -d -p /var/run/dcr/syndaemon.pid -K

'Wish it did here!! I'd like to "kill" the sucker!! I don't like touchpads, never have, and never will! :(

Fred

Fred, The only time I use the touchpad is when I have to. Any other time, I have my lap-board that is just big enough for the laptop, a full-length wrist pad, and a regular mousepad on the right. (Also room for a coaster and a scotch on occasion) I don't know if this will do any good, but this is what I have for the touchpad definition in my xorg.conf and the output from hwinfo. With both Toshiba laptops I have, yast/sax has always configured the touchpad so it is useable. The syndaemon was just the icing on the cake. Here are the files: Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse[3]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "Name" "Touchpad" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "Vendor" "Synaptics" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Looking at hwinfo, it shows: 45: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input Hardware Class: mouse Model: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Vendor: 0x0002 Device: 0x0007 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0003 Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event2, /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Driver Info #0: Buttons: 3 Wheels: 0 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Evidently HAL takes care of loading/unloading the device just like any mouse. If nothing else, maybe you could configure HAL not to load it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 www.rankinlawfirm.com | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org