Touch Pad Sensitivity
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Nov 28 04:05:37 UTC 2005
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,
>>>
>>> Lovell
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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