Unity Interface in 10.10 Netbook Edition

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Fri Oct 29 23:01:04 UTC 2010


On 10/29/2010 5:16 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 10-10-29 04:35 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>>
>> By the way, _if_ you spend time to explore gconf-editor, you will be surprised
>> to find out what Gnome can do (but the Gnome people don'twant noobs to know
>> about, it seems). For example, I found out that you can just kill your
>> touchpad there, great! (I happen to hate touchpads, but there again it's all
>> a question of taste).
>>
>>
> Yes, I suppose if you really wanted to, you could kill your touchpad
> there,, though personally, I would suggest going to System ->
> Preferences ->  Mouse ->  Touchpad Tab and disable it there.
>
What would really be nice is if they would allow you to run symantiks,
which would only kill the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in.  It works
well on a system that allows it.

--doug
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