Disable Back on Synaptics Touchpad

anand78 · #1 9th October 2005, 10:49 PM

I have R3000z ans use the amd64 port of Fedora. Everything is awesome with Fedora core 4 except the fact that The casual swiping on the touchpad results in Back while using Firefox. Can you disable this feature, I like the scroll function but I HATE THIS BACK function.

sailor · #2 10th October 2005, 01:24 AM

My Acer laptop had the same issue...very sensitive...I used psmouse.proto=exps in the /boot/grub/grub.conf like this:

Code:

title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 acpi=ht psmouse.proto=exps
	initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4.img

which disabled the extra pad functions ...my scroll didn't work after doing this, but the touchpad was much less sensitive to accidental touches

StephenH · #3 11th October 2005, 04:17 AM

Laptop? Synaptics?

I am having a problem where the touchpad on my Copaq Presario 2140US only has basic functions. The scrollbar doesn't work unless I plug in an external mouse on the USB port. Then it will work just fine (go figure...).

What settings are you using in your xorg.conf file to get the functionality of the touchpad?

StephenH · #4 11th October 2005, 06:11 AM

Disregard the above post. I found the answer in /usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.0/INSTALL

My first attempt, I goofed it up and had to revert my xorg.conf back. My second attempt succeeded, and I now have full functionality of the scroll bar.

It also seems to be not as sensitive as it was before. The only thing I don't have is a middle-click function for pasting, but I can work around that.

CaseyB · #5 7th November 2005, 08:24 PM

I don't know if you figured this out or not, but if you have the line

Code:

Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

in your xorg.conf file then you should be able to simulate clicking the middle mouse button by clicking the left and right buttons at the same time!

StephenH · #6 8th November 2005, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CaseyB

I don't know if you figured this out or not, but if you have the line

Code:

Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

in your xorg.conf file then you should be able to simulate clicking the middle mouse button by clicking the left and right buttons at the same time!

I tried that, but chording (both buttons at the same time) doesn't seem to work. I'll play with it some more though. The left button doesn't work as well as the right and it might just not be registering as a chorded click.

Regards,

Stephen