Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Feb 17 16:21:25 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +0000, phil wrote:
> > Linux Media wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List
> > > Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad.
> > >
> > > I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over
> > > and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all
> > > works. And all I got was fragmented pieces of information from my
> > > research. I would like to adhere to the new approach to configuring
> > > hardware. I'm assuming that creating an xorg.conf file just confuses
> > > things and doesn't address the new way of doing things.
> > >
> > > Ok, so does anyone know how to correctly edit an FDI file to disable
> > > mouse taps (and which file)? Or is there a better way?
> > >
> > > Btw... I'm running KDE 4.2.0
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Rocco
> > >
> > follow the instructions here
> >
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814
>
>
> You don't need to do any of that. All you need to do is:
>
> a) yum install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
> b) synclient TouchpadOff=1
>
> I am writing a Qt GUI to interface with synclient as we speak.
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in essence, the heavy lifting is already done with ksynaptics except
that it doesn't work...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480573
Be sure to follow the link in comment #3
Craig
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