Karmic touch pad request

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Mon Sep 28 01:05:22 BST 2009


Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:

> On 2009-09-27 at 00:15:47 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:15:47 -0400
>> From: Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com>
>> To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <ubuntu-devel at darkpixel.com>
>> Cc: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: Karmic touch pad request
>> 
>> One metric that I use is the principle of least surprise. I also
> 
> I would be least surprised if it worked.  ;)
> 
> Look at both sides:
> Enable tap-click on the touchpad.  What will it hurt?  The most common
> complaint I've heard is accidental tapping when you rest your hands over
> the touchpad.  Well--there's an option to turn it off. 

Where?  Sure I can do "synclient touchpadOff=1", but I'm completely stumped 
on doing that automagically when I plug in my USB mouse.
-- 
derek




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