disabling touchpad on laptop

[Trey Sizemore]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:52:19 -0500
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 08:10, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >> I would like to disable my touchpad mouse on my laptop or, at
> >> least, the "tap" function of this one.
> >>
> >> I put TRACKPAD_OPT=notap in my /etc/sysconfig/mouse file but
> >> without any success...
> >> Thanks for help. I run FC4.
> >
> >For FC5 and FC6, there's an application called ksynaptics which does
> > what you want very easily. It has also an "smart" option that will
> > turn off the touchpad (completely or tap only) automaticaly when
> > you start typing something, enabling it again when you stop typing.
> > This is great to avoid accidental taps or cursor movements while
> > you are typing.
> >Don't know if it's available for FC4.
> >
> >[]'s
> >Marcelo
> 
> How do you call it once this package is installed?  I have installed
> it on my FC5 lappy, but its nowhere to be found.
> 
> 

Yes, it's not immediately apparent.  You need to go to KDE Control
Center -> Peripherals -> Touchpad.  All the settings can be enabled and
disabled from there.

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Trey
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