Disabling touchpad on laptop
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 13:24:18 UTC 2007
On 22/01/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> I don't use KDE, but I'd assume it makes a menu entry in whatever passes
> for a preferences menu. That's what gsynaptics does in GNOME.
>
> Here's the touchpad section of my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> EndSection
>
> The SHMConfig option needs to be set to use the GUI configurators. From
> the command line, you can also use synclient. See the man page.
>
I just reset the machine to test the wifi, and looking in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Also, a tray icon with the synaptics options appeared. So it's
working. However, it's all greyed out (I cannot change any options),
and it complains that it cannot access shared memory.
I just saw that it's set to emulate 3 buttons. So I hit the two
buttons and it pasted. Cool. I'm glad that I looked at that.
Dotan Cohen
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