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From: "Matthias Guede" <matthias.guede@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient
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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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