KSynaptics anyone?

[Linuxguy123]

I use Ksynaptics on my laptop in KDE.  When I ran it for the first time
from the Kmenu, it asked me to make a change to my xorg.conf file.  It
asked me to add Option "SHMConfig" "on" to the InputDevice section of
the file as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
    Option         "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

I did this and then ksynaptics worked.   Its a really good application.
It allows me to change the sensitivity of my touchpad as well as turn it
on and off and customize it other ways.  It works great. 

Hope this helps. 




On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 13:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have an icon in the panel on my Thinkpad T43 running Fedora-9 (KDE)
> entitled "KSynaptics: Enable and disable your touch pad temporarily",
> which is exactly what I want to do.
> [I know I can do this with the command
>         sudo synclient TouchpadOff=1
> but if it can be done by clicking on an icon that would be nice.]
> 
> However, if I left-click on the icon nothing happens;
> while if I right-click and go to Configure KSynaptics Touchpad
> I am told, "No usable driver has been found.
> You need at least driver version 0.14.4!"
> But I'm also told I am using version 0.14.6c.
> 
> Has anyone overcome this hurdle?
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
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