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kilolima

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

Hi all,

The touchpad on my dell vostro 1400 is driving me crazy.

I installed Q or K synaptics from Aur (the name is one thing and the description calls it something else).  It integrates into kcontrol.  It crashes all over the place and it's hard to tell if it is doing anything.

Then I find that klipper, which is a handy program, is causing single finger taps on the touchpad to be treated as paste events.  Which means that text gets pasted everywhere randomly as I try to type (since I am an uncoordinated typist).  So that has to go.

Now with klipper off and ksynaptics set to single finger touchpad taps = left mouse button, a single tap in firefox opens links in a new tab and the same on a tab itself closes it!  Two finger taps which should = middle mouse button are ignored.  Is this totally random or is there a master list somewhere of touchpad actions across all applications?!@!#!?  Is there a way to selectively turn off touchpad events for particular apps?  Or someway to delete everything touchpad related and start over?!

cheers

kilolima

Last edited by kilolima (2008-02-19 21:40:57)

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

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Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

Sounds like for whatever reason single-finger taps are acting as button 2. You might take a look at the output of "synclient -l" to see what the TapButton* settings are. Beware: mine are reading 1, 1, 100 instead of 1, 2, 3, but they work properly. So now I'm confused too.

kilolima

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Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

I've noticed with the aid of synclient that my changes to ksynaptics have no affect on my touchpad.  This is also true when I completely delete the touchpad sections from xorg.conf.  It still works, the same.  Is there anywhere I can set touchpad options?!

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

I've never used anything for synaptics except xorg.conf. There are examples in the wiki.

gun26

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Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 55

Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

I set mine up from the wiki, too: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics. But I found that the mouse cursor was a tad sluggish with either of the examples there, so I stole some speed and acceleration numbers from what the latest Mandriva beta set up automatically on the same machine to end up with this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Touchpad"
        Driver  "synaptics"
        Option  "Device"   "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option  "Protocol"   "auto-dev"
        Option  "LeftEdge"   "120"
        Option  "RightEdge"   "830"
        Option  "TopEdge"   "120"
        Option  "BottomEdge"   "650"
        Option  "FingerLow"   "14"
        Option  "FingerHigh"   "15"
        Option  "MaxTapTime"   "180"
        Option  "MaxTapMove"   "110"
        Option  "EmulateMidButtonTime"   "75"
        Option  "VertScrollDelta"   "20"
        Option  "HorizScrollDelta"   "20"
        Option  "MinSpeed"   "0.8"
        Option  "MaxSpeed"   "1.00"
        Option  "AccelFactor"   "0.015"
        Option  "EdgeMotionMinSpeed"   "200"
        Option  "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"   "200"
        Option  "UpDownScrolling"   "0"
        Option  "CircularScrolling"   "1"
        Option  "CircScrollDelta"   "0.1"
        Option  "CircScrollTrigger"   "2"
        Option  "SHMConfig"   "on"
        Option  "Emulate3Buttons"   "on"
EndSection

staticvoid

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 160

Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

thanx, i was wondering how to get my scroll to work.. XD

i think pauldonelly is right... in ff2 middle click opens in a new tab.. in glipper, my expirience is middle click opens paste options.. so somthing is just mixed up, my xorg reads:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "UpDownScrolling"   "0"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

i have a sony pcg-tr3a though...

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kilolima

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Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

Well, I uninstalled ksynaptics and installed gsynaptics... and now the touchpad actually responds to settings.  Thanks all!

tigrmesh

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Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

Would you please mark this thread as solved?  (edit your 1st post)

Thanks

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: touchpad craziness [SOLVED]

Thank you.:)