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PaulCartwright

Saturday, 21 August 2010 Sat, 21 Aug '10

11:14 a.m.

I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that would be under...

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Matthew Saltzman

Saturday, 21 August Sat, 21 Aug

12:07 p.m.

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:14 -0400, PaulCartwright wrote:

I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that would be under...

Should be a tab under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Mouse. Note that the most recent ALPS touchpads aren't detected properly. Tapping works, but scrolling doesn't. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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Aaron Konstam

3:36 p.m.

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 13:07 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:14 -0400, PaulCartwright wrote: > I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic > touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP > the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure > out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that > would be under... Should be a tab under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Mouse.

No its: System->PPrefeerences->Mouse There is no Hardware choice.

Note that the most recent ALPS touchpads aren't detected properly. Tapping works, but scrolling doesn't. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

-- Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>

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PaulCartwright

Sunday, 22 August Sun, 22 Aug

4:02 a.m.

New subject: touchpad issue-SOLVED

On Sun August 22 2010, Tim wrote:

But, perhaps, a bit difficult if you're on a laptop without separate touchpad buttons, and no mouse...

exactly..

Though, I agree with you, I dislike it. My touchpad is very sensitive, and hands near it will cause the mouse pointer to whiz about, and stuff up where I'm typing.

my problem is .. not so much a heavy hand, but pressing on the left-side edge of the laptop sometimes causes the mouse/touchpad to SHOOT across the screen... -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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Tim

2:19 a.m.

New subject: touchpad issue-SOLVED

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 18:02 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:

For people like me, I like the opposite as I have 'heavy hands' and thus just touching the touchpad will cause it to click. It is a real pain to deactivate it (just as it is for you to activate it.) I guess so many folks complained to Fedora or the driver package creator that they changed this action. Fortunately, it is simple to turn back on.

But, perhaps, a bit difficult if you're on a laptop without separate touchpad buttons, and no mouse... Though, I agree with you, I dislike it. My touchpad is very sensitive, and hands near it will cause the mouse pointer to whiz about, and stuff up where I'm typing. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.

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James McKenzie

Saturday, 21 August Sat, 21 Aug

8:02 p.m.

New subject: touchpad issue-SOLVED

PaulCartwright wrote:

On 08/21/2010 12:58 PM, Greg Woods wrote: >> I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic >> >>> touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP >>> the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure >>> out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that >>> would be under... >>> > System -> Preferences -> Mouse . There is a "Touchpad" tab and you click > the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" box to enable this behavior. > that was it, thanks! I can't imagine why that wasn't checked by default... in every other distro I've tried it was the default...

For people like me, I like the opposite as I have 'heavy hands' and thus just touching the touchpad will cause it to click. It is a real pain to deactivate it (just as it is for you to activate it.) I guess so many folks complained to Fedora or the driver package creator that they changed this action. Fortunately, it is simple to turn back on. Now to see if my old trackpoint is supported as well....(This feature should be non-selectable as it does not have tap-to-select hardware.) James McKenzie

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PaulCartwright

12:12 p.m.

New subject: touchpad issue-SOLVED

On 08/21/2010 12:58 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

> I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic > > touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP > > the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure > > out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that > > would be under... System -> Preferences -> Mouse . There is a "Touchpad" tab and you click the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" box to enable this behavior.

that was it, thanks! I can't imagine why that wasn't checked by default... in every other distro I've tried it was the default...

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PaulCartwright

12:14 p.m.

On 08/21/2010 01:07 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic > > touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP > > the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure > > out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that > > would be under... Should be a tab under System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Mouse.

actually, it is system-preferences-mouse. no hardware. But that did it!

Note that the most recent ALPS touchpads aren't detected properly. Tapping works, but scrolling doesn't.

this is a Dell XPS 4-yr-old laptop with a synaptic touchpad..

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Joerg Bergmann

11:54 a.m.

Am 21.08.2010 18:14, schrieb PaulCartwright:

I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that would be under...

Have the same issue on my Lenovo T60. System->upper entry ("Einstellungen" in german), mouse->touchpad->lower deactivate ("Bildlauf" in german).

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Greg Woods

11:58 a.m.

On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 12:14 -0400, PaulCartwright wrote:

I'm running fedora 13, and and on my laptop, I have a synaptic touchpad. When I am moving the cursor around, I used to be able to TAP the pad to make it do the same as a left-double-click. I can't figure out how to make it do that in fedora ( gnome).. Not sure what menu that would be under...

System -> Preferences -> Mouse . There is a "Touchpad" tab and you click the "Enable mouse clicks with touchpad" box to enable this behavior. --Greeg

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Aaron Konstam
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James McKenzie
Joerg Bergmann
Matthew Saltzman
PaulCartwright
Tim