[dundee] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] Disable touchpad while typing

[Dan Bolser]

2009/4/26 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>:
> 2009/4/26 Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>:
>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:12:17 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:
>>
>>> That's working great on my Hardy laptop (a gripe I never got round to
>>> investigating), however, since we're fixing things... I recently
>>> started to notice a problem with my touchpads vertical scrolling
>>> function (which I love). The problem is that the vertical scroll
>>> region of the touch pad extends well beyond the physically defined
>>> region of the touch pad on the right.
>>>
>>> To be clear my touch pad is is about 7cm wide, and there is a small
>>> vertical ridge at 6cm to demark the 'scrollie button' region. However,
>>> this feature is active from about the 5th cm along the touchpad. I
>>> find this really annoying, as I'm just about to move the mouse to
>>> click, all of a sudden the point I was aiming for is leaping up or
>>> down the screen (keeping my left hand on the kbd and 'reaching for the
>>> mouse' with my right hand naturally puts my finger on the right side
>>> of the touch pad).
>>>
>>> How can I configure the region of the touchpad responsible for
>>> horizontal scrolling? (to make it smaller).
>>
>> Sounds like you want to adjust the RightEdge Coordinates. Try tweaking
>> Option "RightEdge" "integer"
>>
>> Take a look at the synaptics man page (where you'll find a diagram
>> showing how the touchpad is split up).
>>
>> How you make this change will vary depending on what versions of the
>> xserver and synaptics driver you have. You'll either have to do the
>> SHM/fdi file hack or you'll be able to set this through the xinput
>> utility.
>
> Beautiful! After setting up "SHMConfig" "true", I could play with the
> setting through synclient. I bumped the value of RightEdge from 5072
> (synclient -l) to 5900, which is just about perfect. Much above this
> and it seems to 'cut-off' (vertical scrolling stops working
> completely), but its not a problem. I set this in xorg.conf so its now
> fixed :-D

Wow! playing with some of the commands suggested in the man page, I
have discovered just how ludicrously sensitive the mouse pad is!

>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Dan.
>
>
>> Andrew
>>
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