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To disable the TouchPad, but leaving the trackpoint functional, you need to modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf | To disable the TouchPad, but leaving the trackpoint functional, you need to modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf | ||
| − | To the InputDevice section, for the mouse with the "synaptics" driver add | + | To the InputDevice section, for the mouse with the "synaptics" driver add '''Option "TouchpadOff" "1" |
| − | + | ''' | |
| − | + | eg | |
| + | Section "InputDevice" | ||
| + | ... | ||
| + | Driver "synaptics" | ||
| + | ... | ||
| + | '''Option "TouchpadOff" "1"''' | ||
| + | ... | ||
| + | EndSection | ||
===Project Homepage=== | ===Project Homepage=== | ||
Revision as of 04:06, 11 January 2007
Contents
Synaptics TouchPad driver for XOrg/XFree86
This is a driver for all synaptics touchpads for X.org/Xfree86 4.x. The driver is not written portably; it will not work on operating systems other than Linux and FreeBSD (by ports).
Features
- Movement with adjustable, non-linear acceleration and speed
- Button events through short touching of the touchpad
- Dragging through short touching and holding down the finger on the touchpad
- Middle and right button events on the upper and lower corner of the touchpad
- Vertical scrolling (button four and five events) through moving the finger on the right side of the touchpad
- Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving the finger on the lower side of the touchpad
- Adjustable finger detection
Disabling under XOrg
To disable the TouchPad, but leaving the trackpoint functional, you need to modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
To the InputDevice section, for the mouse with the "synaptics" driver add Option "TouchpadOff" "1" eg
Section "InputDevice"
...
Driver "synaptics"
...
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
...
EndSection
