Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

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fred smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:12:29AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:55 -0500, fred smith wrote:
>>
>>>>> But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the 
>>>>> "SHMConfig" "on" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then using Synaptics?
>>>> ----
>>>> I believe that executing 'synclient TouchpadOff=1' should do
>>>> that...without an xorg.conf but having something
>>>> like /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi above (I think I omitted the
>>>> 'policy' directory
>>> To go back to my posting earlier in the thread, running synclient results
>>> in an error message about SHMConfig not existing.
>> ----
>> assuming...
>> - you have installed xorg-x11-drv-synaptics package
>> - copied the file referenced to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi
>> - identified the specific touchpad in /proc/bus/input/devices
>> - added the SHMConfig reference to this 11-synaptics.fdi in the
>> appropriate section
>> - restarted the computer
>>
>> you shouldn't get that message
>>
>> Which part of this are you struggling with?
> 
> trying to do it without having to create xorg.conf.
> 
> i've done all the steps with the synaptics.fdi file, and it doesn't
> seem to disable the touchpad, either. Oh well, it's not a huge deal,
> I just thought it would be interesting to know how to do it.
> 
> Thanks!

Two thing come to mind...

You may be taking instructions from the post that left out the 'policy' 
directory in it's copy path when copying the 11-synaptics.fdi file.

If not, then could it be that the entries need to be lined up (executed) 
in a certain order?

I would suggest looking at the 'solved' post. I purposely did a 'step by 
step' account of how to do this (with the right copy path included), but 
I also have a link to where you can see my edited synaptics.fdi file in 
that post.

Rocco