Hi all, I'm running Suse 10.1 on a laptop with a touchpad. I find that the gestures (tapping etc.) are really irritating, as they get over-enthusiastic and trigger things I wasn't wanting. Previously, in 9.3 I had the gestures disabled, but I can't see how to do this any longer. There's no options in SaX2, Yast, nor in Gnome control center, at least not that I have spotted yet. Anyone know how to do this? TIA Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz
On Saturday 21 October 2006 12:43, Simon Roberts wrote:
I'm running Suse 10.1 on a laptop with a touchpad. I find that the gestures (tapping etc.) are really irritating, as they get over-enthusiastic and trigger things I wasn't wanting. Previously, in 9.3 I had the gestures disabled, but I can't see how to do this any longer. There's no options in SaX2, Yast, nor in Gnome control center, at least not that I have spotted yet.
Anyone know how to do this?
I like to use the touchpad, specially because you can use its edge as a mouse-wheel, but I hate the tapping mode, which always does what I don't want. Anyway, to control the touchpad functions you need to install the package "ksynaptics". Then go to KMenu/Personal Settings/Peripherals/Touch Pad and adjust the settings there. You also get in 10.1 a handy icon in the taskbar that allows you to momentarily disable the touchpad or its functions. For the use as mouse-wheel there is a sequence of steps that inform the system about the geometry of your touchpad. But I found in 10.1 that even after this setting my pointer continued to drift when I held my finger still, which meant that it thought my finger was close to the edge, though it wasn't. I checked the option ALPS and it set the geometry automatically and solved this problem. Cheers, Carlos FL
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