Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10
Linuxguy123
linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 16:37:53 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:17 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:09 -0500, fred smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:01:13AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +0000, phil wrote:
> > > > Linux Media wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List
> > > > > Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over
> > > > > and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all
> > > > > works. And all I got was fragmented pieces of information from my
> > > > > research. I would like to adhere to the new approach to configuring
> > > > > hardware. I'm assuming that creating an xorg.conf file just confuses
> > > > > things and doesn't address the new way of doing things.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, so does anyone know how to correctly edit an FDI file to disable
> > > > > mouse taps (and which file)? Or is there a better way?
> > > > >
> > > > > Btw... I'm running KDE 4.2.0
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > > Rocco
> > > > >
> > > > follow the instructions here
> > > >
> > > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814
> > >
> > >
> > > You don't need to do any of that. All you need to do is:
> > >
> > > a) yum install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
> > > b) synclient TouchpadOff=1
> >
> > I'm not the OP, but I tried that on my F10 system (eeepc 901, in case
> > it makes any difference) and all uses of synclient (except for a bare
> > "synclient" results in:
> >
> > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
> >
> > I don't find anything named SHMConfig, and neither rpm -a, nor
> > "yum list availbale" turns it up.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> ----
> cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \
> /etc/hal/fdi/11-synaptics.fdi
>
> edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in the thread appropriate
> section for your touchpad (you can discover which touchpad section by
> 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices') and reboot
NO, NO, NO ! Sheesh !
SHMConfig is a setting in the xorg.conf file.
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make the synaptics parts of it look like
this:
<snip>
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "CorePointer"
EndSection
<snip>
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
You'll need to restart X (reboot ?) for these changes to take place.
You might want to back up your present xorg.conf before making these
changes.
LG
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