Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

[Stefano Cavallari]

On Saturday 16 January 2010 18:02:28 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
> 
check 
$ man synclient
and
$ man synaptics
I use KDE Autostart feature to launch a small scripts which sets the touchpad 
for me
for your case something like:

#!/bin/sh
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 HorizEdgeScroll=0
(not tested)
HTH,
	Stefano Cavallari
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