Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

[Wendell Nichols]

I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p.  Most things are good, but when I'm 
away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the 
touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the 
desktop.  All of these are accidents but I just can't keep from 
accidentally striking the scroll areas of the pad, and depending on 
where the cursor is, madly switching desktops and apps.  So I'm 
constantly having to reposition myself on the correct app and restore 
hidden windows. 
Is there any way to disable this behaviour?
I use fedora 10 and 11 with kde.
wcn

[Thomas Taylor]

On Saturday 16 January 2010 09:02:28 am Wendell Nichols wrote:
> I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p.  Most things are good, but when I'm
> away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on
>  the touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the
>  desktop.  All of these are accidents but I just can't keep from
>  accidentally striking the scroll areas of the pad, and depending on
>  where the cursor is, madly switching desktops and apps.  So I'm
>  constantly having to reposition myself on the correct app and
>  restore hidden windows.
> Is there any way to disable this behaviour?
> I use fedora 10 and 11 with kde.
> wcn
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You don't say which version of kde you're using, but search their site 
for kcm_touchpad.  I got it from the community repo.for openSUSE 11.2.  
They should have a version for fedora also.  After you install it, there 
will be an entry in "Configure Desktop/General/Keyboard & Mouse/Touchpad 
where you can change its settings.