Mouse gestures in Firefox on FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Patrick Doyle wrote:

> On 7/25/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>> 
>> > Hello all,
>> > I am running FC5 on a laptop and have learned, accidentally, and then
>> > experimentally, that mouse gestures are enabled on my touchpad in
>> > Firefox.  (They may be enabled elsewhere, but, so far, this is where I
>> > have noticed it, and have found it most annoying).
>> >
>> 
>> The synaptics touchpad is controlled by the programs in the synaptics RPM.
>> They are reasonably well documented in /usr/share/doc/synaptics-*.  Lots
>> of settings are configurable.
>> 
> Thank you, Matthew.  I don't see anything there that is specific to
> Firefox, nor do I see anything specific to "click and drag" or
> "gestures".  Is there someplace else I should look?

Firefox-specific gestures aren't enabled by default.  You need a Fx plugin 
for that (so you'd know if you had installed that).  I believe you're 
experiencing LeftRightScrolling in the syanptics driver, which by default 
in Fx activates forward and backward page.  If you hold the cursor over 
the workspace selector in GNOME and run your finger across the bottom of 
the touchpad, you'll flip through the workspaces.

If you don't want to change the scrolling behavior of the touchpad but you 
want to try to find a Fx setting, enter about:config in the destination 
bar and scan the keywords there.  There might be a setting related to 
scrolling that you can set.  Can't say what you should set it to, 
though...

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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