On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:28:33PM +0100, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:01:20PM +0000, Erik Chakravarty wrote: > > Can anybody think of a way to disable the touchpad temporarily (without > > restarting X)? > > > > The touchpad is very sensitive under Linux it seems and keeps jumping > > around documents whilst I'm typing if I accidentally brush close to it. > > from http://ibook.sdbk.de/ibookWiki/Configuration: > > Colin Leroy wrote a userspace application called mouseemu > [http://geekounet.org/powerbook/files/mouseemu.tar.gz] that > handles 2nd and 3rd mouse emulation as well as scroll-wheel emulation > (ALT+trackpad as default). This also allows to disable the trackpad while > typing which is very nice if you tend to accidentially touch the trackpad. The problem I have with this OS X like behaviour is that it makes it impossible to resize or move a window with Alt/Meta+MMB and Alt/Meta+RMB respectively. Paul -- Student @ Eindhoven | JID: paul@luon.net University of Technology, The Netherlands | email: paul@luon.net >>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG: finger paul@luon.net
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