Inadvertent 'back' with Synaptics touchpad
Partha Bagchi
partha at comcast.net
Sun Jan 9 23:21:37 UTC 2005
Andrew Jordan <aj <at> dogzero.com> writes:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm sure this will have been covered before, but I just can't find
> anything - probably because I can't think of a restrictive enough set of
> search criteria...
>
> I'm running FC2 on a Tadpole Talin laptop which has a touchpad. I'm using
> the Synaptics driver for the touchpad and it works pretty well MOST of the
> time. But sometimes, when I'm using a web browser (Firefox 0.9.3) if I
> move the cursor across the screen to the left using the touchpad, it will
> have the effect of hitting the 'go back one page' arrow from the
> navigation toolbar (or pressing [ALT] + [Left Arrow] if you prefer.) This
> only happens sometimes and I guess must be fixable using synclient, but I
> really can't see what setting(s) could be causing this beahviour.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew.
>
This has been discussed before ( I can't remember the thread). However,
In Firefox, open the configuration in the browser (about: config) and change the
following:
"mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action" 0
"mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines" true
HTH,
Partha
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