Default touchpad configuration confusing

[Garry Williams]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 14:55 +0000, Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> This may be more an up stream issue for Gnome or x.org, but it does
> seriously impact the usability of FC on laptops:

[snip]

This doesn't fix the problem you report and others have mentioned a bug
report would be appropriate, but...

I found the default behavior very irritating, too.  Here's my fix.
Change xorg.conf making the VertScrollDelta and HorizScrollDelta options
zero.  No more gestures.  I also wanted to speed up my pointer so I
changed the MinSpeed to 0.65 from 0.3.  It used to take more than two
strokes across my pad to get across the screen.  YMMV.

        Section "InputDevice"
                 Identifier  "Synaptics"
                 Driver      "synaptics"
                 Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
                 Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
                 Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
                 Option     "LeftEdge" "120"
                 Option     "RightEdge" "830"
                 Option     "TopEdge" "120"
                 Option     "BottomEdge" "650"
                 Option     "FingerLow" "14"
                 Option     "FingerHigh" "15"
                 Option     "MaxTapMove" "0"
                 Option     "VertScrollDelta" "0"
                 Option     "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
                 Option     "MinSpeed" "0.65"
                 Option     "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
         EndSection

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