On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the
>> tap option on my touch pad?
>>
>> I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or some
>> part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me typing in
>> another part of the text that I have already typed. I thought I could
>> live with it but I really can't :) . I tried changing my typing so my
>> wrists are up higher but no luck. So now I would like to try turning
>> off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am better
>> off without it.
>>
>> I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000
>
>
> Is this a Synaptics touchpad? If so, you probably have the synaptics RPM
> installed. It includes a program called syndaemon, which disables the
> touchpad while you are typing.
>
> I haven't felt the need, but it might do the job for you.
>
Here is what happened when I tried to run syndaemon:
[user@Blade ~]$ sudo syndaemon -t -d
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
I tried to find SHMConfig but didn't see a man page for it or couldn't locate
it anywhere. Can you tell me what I might be missing? I also didn't see the
syndaemon in the services list via the gui if that helps.
Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
...
EndSection
and add the line
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
in a line between the Section and EndSection lines. Then restart X.
See /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/README for more things you can
configure.
syndaemon doesn't come with a startup script. You can invoke it in
/etc/rc.local.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lovell
>>
>>
>>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
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