Touch Pad Sensitivity

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the
>>>> tap option on my touch pad?
>>>>
>>>> I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or 
>>>> some
>>>> part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me 
>>>> typing in
>>>> another part of the text that I have already typed.  I thought I could
>>>> live with it but I really can't  :) .  I tried changing my typing 
>>>> so my
>>>> wrists are up higher but no luck.  So now I would like to try turning
>>>> off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am 
>>>> better
>>>> off without it.
>>>>
>>>> I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this a Synaptics touchpad?  If so, you probably have the 
>>> synaptics RPM installed.  It includes a program called syndaemon, 
>>> which disables the touchpad while you are typing.
>>>
>>> I haven't felt the need, but it might do the job for you.
>>>
>> Here is what happened when I tried to run syndaemon:
>>
>> [user at Blade ~]$ sudo syndaemon -t -d
>> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
>>
>> I tried to find SHMConfig but didn't see a man page for it or 
>> couldn't locate it anywhere.  Can you tell me what I might be 
>> missing?  I also didn't see the syndaemon in the services list via 
>> the gui if that helps.
>
>
> Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for
>
>     Section "InputDevice"
>             Identifier  "Synaptics"
>             Driver      "synaptics"
>     ...
>     EndSection
>
> and add the line
>
>     Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
>
> in a line between the Section and EndSection lines.  Then restart X.
>
> See /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/README for more things you can 
> configure.
>
> syndaemon doesn't come with a startup script.  You can invoke it in 
> /etc/rc.local.
>
Thanks for all the help, it does exactly what I want it to do.  Sorry it 
took me so long to respond but I finally got a chance to reboot my 
machine after changing my xorg.conf file.  Forgive me for not being able 
to know how to restart the xserver from the command line :)


>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Lovell
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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