Re: Synaptics touchpad?
I haven't quite followed this thread, but there are at least two
packages, tpconfig and synaptics, that contain a program to control
various features of the synaptics touchpad, such as tapping, dragging,
tapping in corners etc.
It might be what you need.
René Seindal.
On søn, 2002-02-10 at 06:14, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 07:09, Dave Thayer wrote:
> >
> > ---- /etc/gpm-syn.conf ----
> > [use_wmode] Y
> > [corner_taps_enabled] Y
> > [upper_left_action] 3
> > [lower_left_action] 2
> >
> > The only place that gpm-syn.conf is documented is in README.synaptics.
> > Note that README.synaptics is missing from the sid binary debs, but it
> > is in the source package. I have filed a bug report to get it included
> > because using gpm-syn.conf was the key to getting everything to behave.
>
> Man I _wish_ I'd been able to find that documentation. I bought a
> laptop for my father recently and installed Linux on it but it became
> practically unusable because of all the 'smartness' of the default
> synaptics touchpad. Especially for my father who is over 75...
>
> I found the names of all these configuration things, as well as the name
> of the configuration file, by trolling through the gpm binary, but there
> is no way I would have guessed that sort of wierd syntax :-)
>
> I sure wish I could have done a :
> man 5 gpm-syn.conf
> or something.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew.
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