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Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"



On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:27:11AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. Up to date Sid.
> 
> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
> 
> 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
> 
> and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.
> 
> But now, after the change in X where most of the specific 
> configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll" 
> areas.
> 
> So I put the following into the only place available in the new 
> xorg.conf
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "false"
>         Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "false"
> EndSection
> 
> but the annoying "scroll" remains.
> 
> Suggestions?

just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need* them
anymore.

A

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