Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
Hello All,
Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the tap option on my touch pad?
I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or some part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me typing in another part of the text that I have already typed. I thought I could live with it but I really can't :) . I tried changing my typing so my wrists are up higher but no luck. So now I would like to try turning off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am better off without it.
I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000
Is this a Synaptics touchpad? If so, you probably have the synaptics RPM installed. It includes a program called syndaemon, which disables the touchpad while you are typing.
I haven't felt the need, but it might do the job for you.
Here is what happened when I tried to run syndaemon:
[user@Blade ~]$ sudo syndaemon -t -d Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
I tried to find SHMConfig but didn't see a man page for it or couldn't locate it anywhere. Can you tell me what I might be missing? I also didn't see the syndaemon in the services list via the gui if that helps.
Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" ... EndSection
and add the line
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
in a line between the Section and EndSection lines. Then restart X.
See /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/README for more things you can configure.
syndaemon doesn't come with a startup script. You can invoke it in /etc/rc.local.
Thanks for all the help, it does exactly what I want it to do. Sorry it took me so long to respond but I finally got a chance to reboot my machine after changing my xorg.conf file. Forgive me for not being able to know how to restart the xserver from the command line :)
Thanks,
Lovell