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9300 + Ubuntu Fiesty = Touch Pad Issues

post #1 of 7
5/5/07 at 12:11am
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Does anyone know how to turn down the sensitivity of the touch pad when using Ubuntu? It likes to click way too easily.

Thanks,
Douglas
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post #2 of 7
5/5/07 at 1:20am
Assuming you know how to edit your xorg.conf, there's a description parameters that define your touchpad's behavior at the bottom of this page for synaptics touchpads

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad

Rather than sudo the file every time to open and save it you can just add one paramter in the xorg.conf in the touchpad section:
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
This will allow you to use the command line to edit the parameters of the touchpad...
Once you've added this to the xorg.conf, save this and restart X
Use "synclient -l" to list the current settings (that's a lowercase 'L')
Adjust the settings as you see fit...
For instance, "synclient TouchPadOff=1" turns the touchpad off
Hope this helps

I need to get around to putting feisty on here
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post #3 of 7
5/5/07 at 2:53am
The 9300 uses the ALPS touchpad and it blows. I was never satisfied with it. I would suggest a wireless mouse over that touchpad.
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post #4 of 7
5/5/07 at 3:16am
Yeah, I have an Alps touchpad as well but I still use the synaptics features in Linux and Alps drivers in Windows...
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post #5 of 7
5/5/07 at 5:58am
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zzpulp - Thank you! I had already enabled the Config somehow I missed how to actually use it. I am playing with the values now.

melshaw - Thank you for the worthless info. Glad you think it sucks but personally I haven't found any touch pad I like much more. The Toshiba ones are horrible, the HP/Compaq ones aren't what I consider good. If I wanted to plug in a mouse I'd have a desktop/tower not a laptop.
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post #6 of 7
5/5/07 at 11:04am
Actually man, melshaw is pretty much correct...Synaptics >> Alps and it wasnt until last year that decent drivers got released for alps in windows...but in linux it doesnt matter
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post #7 of 7
5/8/07 at 3:05pm
I had a little trouble early on, but I ended up finding a program/plugin that let me change the sensitivity of the touchpad with the Feisty GUI. I'll take a look and see if I can find that again.
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