laptop touchpad causing browser 'Back'??

[Shaffer Paul]

Yeah, and if M$ was designing autos we'd have to randomly stop the car,
roll the windows up and down, get out, run 'round the vehicle, then get
back in to resume the journey... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of J. Epperson
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:41 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: laptop touchpad causing browser 'Back'??
> 
> Reminds me of something Marcus Ranum said back in the dawn of time:
> "If the makers of X-Window had designed an automobile, 
> there'd be no fewer than four steering wheels cleverly hidden 
> about the cockpit, none of which operated on the same 
> principles.  But you'd be able to shift gears using the 
> stereo.  Useful feature, that."
> 
> Wayne Leutwyler wrote:
> 
> > Stephen Walton wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 15:33 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>> But the real issue is that in FC3, the full-featured synaptics 
> >>> touchpad driver is included in the distro and the touchpad is 
> >>> detected at install time.
> >>>   
> >>
> >>
> >> I know about synaptics;  I installed it manually at FC2.  
> But my real 
> >> question is, what feature of Firefox causes it to go back 
> pages when 
> >> one accidentally touches a particular part of the 
> touchpad, and which 
> >> part of the touchpad is involved?
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > Here is what I have found. If the pointer is on the web 
> page and I tap 
> > lower right corner and slide to the upper left corner I 
> will go back 
> > one page. I have not been able to make it go forward yet, but I am 
> > still looking. I will set MaxTapTime to 0 and see if 
> continues to act 
> > the same way.
> 
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