Re: [LUG] Laptop touch pad

[Colin James <colin.james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:14 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with laptop touchpads? Specifically
> the synaptic driver? I've got my touchpad set up quite nicely so it's
> not too slow etc but I can't for the life of me get the tap to click
> to work on it, it's not vital but it would make me a bit happier and
> slightly less frustrated.
> 
> Here's the relavent part of my xorg.conf file:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
>         Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.02"
>         Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.580"
>         Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.450"
>         Option          "MaxTapTime"            "1000"
>         Option          "MaxTapMove"            "220"
> EndSection
> 
> As you can see I've arleady been playing with the "MaxTapTime" options
> and I know, well I think, mine is currently set to a somewhat absurd
> setting but smaller ones didn't make any noticable differences
> (neither does this setting however!).
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Jon
> 
This is what mine says if it helps. My tap to click works.

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
EndSection


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