Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> Hi. Up to date Sid.
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> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
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> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "false"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "false"
> EndSection
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> and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.
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> But now, after the change in X where most of the specific
> configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll"
> areas.
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> So I put the following into the only place available in the new
> xorg.conf
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> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "false"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "false"
> EndSection
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> but the annoying "scroll" remains.
>
> Suggestions?
Curt, did you get this fixed? If not, does adding the line:
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
switch off your touchpad completely?
Jaime
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