synaptics touchpad driver sensitivity

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Tue Feb 5 12:50:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:44 -0500, jack wallen wrote:
> 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.

It also allows adjusting sensitivity.

Also check out syndaemon (part of the synaptics package).  It disables
the touchpad dynamically while the keyboard is in active use.


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                Matthew Saltzman

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