[nflug] Synaptics Touchpad configuration

[Joe]

Yep.  It rocks as advertised!

The only problem I had was in setting the tapping behavior.  It shows
you graphically which mouse button each type of tap will activate, but
the darn pictures are backwards from how a mouse is held so left and
right are reversed!

Joe

Joe wrote:
> ksynaptics does the same thing as qsynaptics, but does dock to the panel
> as advertised.  I just have to see what happens after I log out and back in.
>
> Joe
>
> Robert Meyer wrote:
>   
>> I typically use KDE and there is a 'ksynaptics' app that docks on the
>> taskbar that controls the touchpad.  When I log in, ksynaptics starts
>> up and resets the last set of values that I gave it when I was working
>> with it.  It really rocks.  Is there an equivalent in Gnome?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Joe <josephj at main.nc.us>
>> To: nflug at nflug.org
>> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2007 2:41:09 PM
>> Subject: [nflug] Synaptics Touchpad configuration
>>
>> I have a synaptics touchpad on my notebook (kubuntu feisty).
>> It works fine with one problem.
>>
>> I'm right handed and my finger is always at the right end of the
>> touchpad.  This invariably causes wild vertical scrolling to occur when
>> I'm just trying to move the mouse.  It drives me crazy!
>>
>> I installed qsynaptics, a gui for the touchpad and it has an option to
>> turn scrolling off.  This fixes the problem for one session, but it
>> comes back every time I reboot (it's a dual boot notebook and I turn it
>> off at night, etc.).
>>
>> Is there something I can configure to turn touchpad scrolling off
>> permanently - perhaps in X11 land somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Joe
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