synaptics touchpad driver sensitivity

[jack wallen]

David Kramer wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude D820 running F8, but I have the same problem with 
> pretty much every touchpad.  The problem is not how much the cursor 
> moves as I move my fingers on the pad.  There's plenty of documentation 
> on that.
> 
> My problem is that as I type, I sometimes find the cursor flying to a 
> completely different region, so if I'm typing an email, all of a sudden 
> my typing is going three rows above where I was typing, like the 
> pressure of my hands on the laptop case is enough to trigger the 
> touchpad.  I would like to change the amount of pressure to be 
> considered mouse down.
> 
> Looking at the documentation for synaptics, it looks like there's a 
> setting called FingerLow and another called FingerHigh which I think 
> will adjust the pressure needed.  I didn't want to try it without asking 
> first, lets I render X windows unusable.
> 
> So will this do what I want?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

try installing gsynaptics and then run it. you can disable tapping which 
will help. i had to do this to a laptop recently.

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