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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 this:
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To the InputDevice section, for the mouse with the "synaptics" driver add '''Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
 
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'''
::Option     "TouchpadOff" "1"
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eg
  
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Section "InputDevice"
 +
        ...
 +
        Driver      "synaptics"
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        ...
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        '''Option      "TouchpadOff" "1"'''
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        ...
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EndSection
  
 
===Project Homepage===
 
===Project Homepage===

Revision as of 04:06, 11 January 2007

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

Project Homepage

Synaptics TouchPad driver for XOrg/XFree86