[gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello.

I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically,
I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they 
mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then
interpreted as a click. This annoys the hell out of me, as I accidently
tap the touchpad when I type something and as a result, I continue to 
type at the wrong location. Anyway, enough of the whining - I'd like to
disable tapping...

On various places on the internet, like http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112
or http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/, I found, that it should be
good enough, to add

        Option      "MaxTapTime"        "0"

to the Section "InputDevice" in the xorg.conf file. As you can see in
my xorg.conf file at <http://askwar.pastebin.ca/453131>, I did that.
Nonetheless, I'm sadly still able to use that annoying tapping feature :(

As this did not work, I tried to use graphical configuration tools
like gsynaptics, ksynaptics or synclient to access the touchpad. All
of these tools require, that

        Option      "SHMConfig"         "on"

is added to the xorg.conf. Instead of "on", I also tried "true", "1"
and "yes". None of these work - all the time, when I run one of the
aforementioned tools, I get an error message, stating something reg.
SHMConfig. For synclient, it is:

alexander@blattli ~ $ synclient -m 20
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?

I'm using on ~x86:

alexander@blattli /etc/X11 $ X -version

X Window System Version 7.2.0
Release Date: 22 January 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.045 i686 
Current Operating System: Linux blattli 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.neu.001 #3 Sun Apr 15 11:44:24 CEST 2007 i686
Build Date: 19 March 2007
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present

Is anyone able to configure a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, any idea
what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Matthias Guede]

2007/4/24, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>:
> Hello.
>
> I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically,
> I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they
> mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then
> interpreted as a click. This annoys the hell out of me, as I accidently
> tap the touchpad when I type something and as a result, I continue to
> type at the wrong location. Anyway, enough of the whining - I'd like to
> disable tapping...
>
> On various places on the internet, like http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112
> or http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/, I found, that it should be
> good enough, to add
>
>         Option      "MaxTapTime"        "0"
>
> to the Section "InputDevice" in the xorg.conf file. As you can see in
> my xorg.conf file at <http://askwar.pastebin.ca/453131>, I did that.
> Nonetheless, I'm sadly still able to use that annoying tapping feature :(
>
> As this did not work, I tried to use graphical configuration tools
> like gsynaptics, ksynaptics or synclient to access the touchpad. All
> of these tools require, that
>
>         Option      "SHMConfig"         "on"
>
> is added to the xorg.conf. Instead of "on", I also tried "true", "1"
> and "yes". None of these work - all the time, when I run one of the
> aforementioned tools, I get an error message, stating something reg.
> SHMConfig. For synclient, it is:
>
> alexander@blattli ~ $ synclient -m 20
> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
>
> I'm using on ~x86:
>
> alexander@blattli /etc/X11 $ X -version
>
> X Window System Version 7.2.0
> Release Date: 22 January 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.2
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.045 i686
> Current Operating System: Linux blattli 2.6.19-suspend2-r3.neu.001 #3 Sun Apr 15 11:44:24 CEST 2007 i686
> Build Date: 19 March 2007
>   Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>   to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
>
> Is anyone able to configure a Synaptics Touchpad? If so, any idea
> what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander Skwar
>
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>
>

This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with
"ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it
works, at least for me.
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[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Alexander Skwar]

Matthias Guede <matthias.guede@googlemail.com> wrote:

> This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with
> "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it
> works, at least for me.

With gsynaptics, tapping can be disabled as well. But how do
I use ksynaptics with XFCE?

Alexander Skwar

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Am Dienstag, 24. April 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar:
> Hello.
> alexander@blattli ~ $ synclient -m 20
> Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
> I'm using on ~x86:

are you shure, your server uses the "right" input section to drive your pad? 
Also verify, x11-drivers/synaptics is installed and loaded by X.

> Thanks,
> Alexander Skwar

Hth,
Michael
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Benno Schulenberg]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad.
> Basically, I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature;

    Option "TapButton0" "0"
    Option "TapButton1" "0"
    Option "TapButton2" "0"

And restart X.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:50:52 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically,
> I'd like to disable the annoying "tapping" feature; with tapping, they
> mean, that the user shortly "hits" (taps) the touchpad and this is then
> interpreted as a click. This annoys the hell out of me, as I accidently
> tap the touchpad when I type something and as a result, I continue to
> type at the wrong location. Anyway, enough of the whining - I'd like to
> disable tapping...
>
> On various places on the internet, like
> http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112 or
> http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/, I found, that it should be good
> enough, to add
>
>         Option      "MaxTapTime"        "0"
>
> to the Section "InputDevice" in the xorg.conf file. As you can see in
> my xorg.conf file at <http://askwar.pastebin.ca/453131>, I did that.
> Nonetheless, I'm sadly still able to use that annoying tapping feature :(

From askwar.pastebin.ca/453131:

Section "ServerLayout"
[SNIP]
        InputDevice    "Maus"      "CorePointer"
        #InputDevice    "Synaptics"     "AlwaysCore"
 
#       InputDevice    "Maus"    "AlwaysCore"
#       InputDevice    "Synaptics"     "CorePointer"
[SNIP]
Section "Module"
[SNIP]
#       Load  "synaptics"

Which shows that both the loading of the synaptics driver and the synaptics 
inputdevice under serverlayout are commented. Not sure if this is just a 
mistake in what you pasted or if it's the actual cause...

A MaxTapTime of 0 does work for me. From `man synaptics` :

    TouchpadOff (Integer)
        Switch off the touchpad.  Valid values are:
        [...]
        2   Only tapping and scrolling is switched off

Sounds like that too is what you want.

Also I'm wondering why you would use the synaptics driver at all if you don't 
want any of it's features. At least on my laptop the ordinary mouse driver 
works fine for the touchpad if it wasn't for the fact that I do want those 
features.. ;)

Finally just to be absolutely certain that you're editing the right config 
file..

# grep "Using config" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Matthias Guede <matthias.guede@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with
> > "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it
> > works, at least for me.
>
> With gsynaptics, tapping can be disabled as well. But how do
> I use ksynaptics with XFCE?
>
> Alexander Skwar

Xfce isn't so picky :-)

Even if you haven't KDE few packages are required:

aemaeth ~ # emerge -pe ksynaptics | grep "\ kde"
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/arts-3.5.5  
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r5  
[ebuild  N    ] kde-misc/ksynaptics-0.3.1  USE="arts -debug -xinerama"

But there are 94 for x11-* ...

YMMV: this result is dependent on the flags set in my system, maybe arts 
can be avoided.

Ciao
	Francesco
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