controlling touchpad in hardy?

Larry Hartman larryhartman50 at vzavenue.net
Mon Jun 30 12:54:00 UTC 2008


On Monday 30 June 2008 05:59:50 am D. R. Evans wrote:
> O. Sinclair said the following at 06/30/2008 03:19 AM :
> > Touchfreeze did not make me much happier and I really miss KSynaptic.
> > But after googling and searching around forever I found that adding this
> > line
> > 	Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
> > to the Synaptic Touchpad section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11) disables the
> > tapping totally and I then use the pad-buttons instead for clicking.
> > Peace at last!
>
> Brilliant! Thanks so much for posting this. I'll try this later today.
>
> Frankly, I don't understand how Canonical could have released hardy without
> some obvious way to control this. Sure, the laptop is usable, but it's
> usable in the same intensely frustrating way that it would be usable if it
> were running Windows. In other words: it works, but it's anything but a
> pleasure to use.
>
>   Doc
>
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This is one of the two issues that my wife noticed immediately...just 
transferred her from MS to Kubuntu a week ago....I ended up installing 
gsynaptics to sort it out




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