[opensuse] Automatic option synaptics driver gone from settings.
Hi, I now use 12.1 on an eeepc seashell series . I noticed that a very important option: disable pad when typing, and the time to set pad active again, are gone from the touchpad setting menu, in systemsettings. Is there a way to get that option back? You have no idea how annoying it is when you're typing, and suddenly the cursor is taken over by mouseposition. And have to copy, cut and paste the lines that are somewhere into some other teksts inserted.. Regards, Rob. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:05 +0200, Odd Ball wrote:
Hi,
I now use 12.1 on an eeepc seashell series . I noticed that a very important option: disable pad when typing, and the time to set pad active again, are gone from the touchpad setting menu, in systemsettings.
Is there a way to get that option back? You have no idea how annoying it is when you're typing, and suddenly the cursor is taken over by mouseposition. And have to copy, cut and paste the lines that are somewhere into some other teksts inserted..
I have a very good idea how annoying it is. This feature seems to have gone away. At least I have not seen it in a few releases. So I have to try ever so hard not to brush along the pad. The only recourse I know of is to disable the mouse pad all together. I would love to be proven wrong here. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Roger Oberholtzer schreef:
Hi,
I now use 12.1 on an eeepc seashell series . I noticed that a very important option: disable pad when typing, and the time to set pad active again, are gone from the touchpad setting menu, in systemsettings.
Is there a way to get that option back? You have no idea how annoying it is when you're typing, and suddenly the cursor is taken over by mouseposition. And have to copy, cut and paste the lines that are somewhere into some other teksts inserted.. I have a very good idea how annoying it is. This feature seems to have gone away. At least I have not seen it in a few releases. So I have to
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:05 +0200, Odd Ball wrote: try ever so hard not to brush along the pad. The only recourse I know of is to disable the mouse pad all together. I would love to be proven wrong here.
Well, that would mean i had to use, and carry a mouse all the time.... Not very convenient.... Why not put the option back in? 11.4 had it, as i use it still on another 9"eee-pc... What could be the reason to take it out anyway? Regards, Rob.
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________
Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se
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Op 02-07-12 16:55, Oddball schreef:
Roger Oberholtzer schreef:
Hi,
I now use 12.1 on an eeepc seashell series . I noticed that a very important option: disable pad when typing, and the time to set pad active again, are gone from the touchpad setting menu, in systemsettings.
Is there a way to get that option back? You have no idea how annoying it is when you're typing, and suddenly the cursor is taken over by mouseposition. And have to copy, cut and paste the lines that are somewhere into some other teksts inserted.. I have a very good idea how annoying it is. This feature seems to have gone away. At least I have not seen it in a few releases. So I have to
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 17:05 +0200, Odd Ball wrote: try ever so hard not to brush along the pad. The only recourse I know of is to disable the mouse pad all together. I would love to be proven wrong here.
Well, that would mean i had to use, and carry a mouse all the time.... Not very convenient.... Why not put the option back in? 11.4 had it, as i use it still on another 9"eee-pc... What could be the reason to take it out anyway?
Regards,
Rob.
Well that figures! The option is in the hidden icons behind the arrow, in the systemtray! How obvious! Anyway, the option is not gone, only hidden.... :-D
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________
Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se
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Op 03-07-12 20:28, Oddball schreef:
Well that figures! The option is in the hidden icons behind the arrow, in the systemtray! How obvious!
Anyway, the option is not gone, only hidden.... :-D
The option is not there when first installed 12.1. I know because i just installed on a 9" eeepc, and because the touchpad tapping is not activated, i wanted to use it, but it was not there. :O -- Have a nice day.. Oddball. OS: Linux 3.1.10-1.9-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: odd@Eeepc-seashell4c Systeem: openSUSE 12.1 (i586) KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) "release 5" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 20:43 +0200, Oddball wrote:
Op 03-07-12 20:28, Oddball schreef:
Well that figures! The option is in the hidden icons behind the arrow, in the systemtray! How obvious!
Anyway, the option is not gone, only hidden.... :-D
The option is not there when first installed 12.1. I know because i just installed on a 9" eeepc, and because the touchpad tapping is not activated, i wanted to use it, but it was not there. :O
I'm confused. I thought you said it was in the > menu in the system panel. I know the synaptics thing might be there. But I do not know about the option for disabling the pad when typing. Did you find that option? (My laptop is not handy or I would check myself.) Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/04/2012 04:27 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Op 03-07-12 20:28, Oddball schreef:
Well that figures! The option is in the hidden icons behind the arrow, in the systemtray! How obvious!
Anyway, the option is not gone, only hidden.... :-D
The option is not there when first installed 12.1. I know because i just installed on a 9" eeepc, and because the touchpad tapping is not activated, i wanted to use it, but it was not there. :O I'm confused. I thought you said it was in the> menu in the system
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 20:43 +0200, Oddball wrote: panel. I know the synaptics thing might be there. But I do not know about the option for disabling the pad when typing. Did you find that option? (My laptop is not handy or I would check myself.)
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________
Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se
I'm not sure that synaptics is the program you want. I have synaptics on a laptop in order to disable the touchpad when an external pointing device is plugged in, Has nothing to do with the action on the keyboard. I could not live without the function that I'm using; I have had a program--NOT synaptics--that does what you say, disable the touchpad while typing, and it drove me crazy. The millisecond I stopped hitting a key, the touchpad would activate and move the cursor someplace I didn't want. But if that's the function you want, I don't think it's from synaptics. (As you can see, I'm not a fan of touchpads! Nor of mice, for that matter-- I have a nice Kensington trackball on each of my computers. I don't actually use the laptop in on-the-go situations.) --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 12:14 -0400, Doug wrote:
I'm not sure that synaptics is the program you want. I have synaptics on a laptop in order to disable the touchpad when an external pointing device is plugged in, Has nothing to do with the action on the keyboard. I could not live without the function that I'm using; I have had a program--NOT synaptics--that does what you say, disable the touchpad while typing, and it drove me crazy. The millisecond I stopped hitting a key, the touchpad would activate and move the cursor someplace I didn't want. But if that's the function you want, I don't think it's from synaptics. (As you can see, I'm not a fan of touchpads! Nor of mice, for that matter-- I have a nice Kensington trackball on each of my computers. I don't actually use the laptop in on-the-go situations.)
There may indeed be another program. But this was at one point in time part of the synaptics control program. You could set a delay telling how long after you stopped typing before the pad would once again be enabled. It really worked fine. Then, one day, it was gone. Poof. No trace. I now do a sort of shape exercise for my hands, keeping them away from the pad when typing. Of course, having the pad disabled automatically when another mouse is available would also do the trick. When I have an external mouse I do not use the pad at all. I will have to re-investigate this. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 07/05/2012 01:54 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 12:14 -0400, Doug wrote:
I'm not sure that synaptics is the program you want. I have synaptics on a laptop in order to disable the touchpad when an external pointing device is plugged in, Has nothing to do with the action on the keyboard. I could not live without the function that I'm using; I have had a program--NOT synaptics--that does what you say, disable the touchpad while typing, and it drove me crazy. The millisecond I stopped hitting a key, the touchpad would activate and move the cursor someplace I didn't want. But if that's the function you want, I don't think it's from synaptics. (As you can see, I'm not a fan of touchpads! Nor of mice, for that matter-- I have a nice Kensington trackball on each of my computers. I don't actually use the laptop in on-the-go situations.)
There may indeed be another program. But this was at one point in time part of the synaptics control program. You could set a delay telling how long after you stopped typing before the pad would once again be enabled. It really worked fine. Then, one day, it was gone. Poof. No trace. I now do a sort of shape exercise for my hands, keeping them away from the pad when typing.
Of course, having the pad disabled automatically when another mouse is available would also do the trick. When I have an external mouse I do not use the pad at all. I will have to re-investigate this.
Yours sincerely,
Roger Oberholtzer
Hi, In my .bash_profile, I use this option: synclient TouchpadOff=1 synclient - commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics driver options. Turns that sucker off like there is no tomorrow. Regards, Phil -- Carpe Aptenodytes! (Seize the Penguins!) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* Phil Savoie
In my .bash_profile, I use this option:
synclient TouchpadOff=1
synclient - commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics driver options.
Turns that sucker off like there is no tomorrow.
And it would be simple to attach a bash script to query the setting and apply the reverse. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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