KSynaptics anyone?

[Konstantin Svist]

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?
>
>   


Works fine for me in F8
I have the following packages installed:

gsynaptics.i386                          0.9.14-2.fc8           installed
ksynaptics.i386                          0.3.3-5.fc8            installed
libsynaptics.i386                        0.14.6c-2.fc8          installed
libsynaptics-devel.i386                  0.14.6c-2.fc8          installed
synaptics.i386                           0.14.6-3.fc8           installed