Disabling touchpad on laptop

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 22/01/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't use KDE, but I'd assume it makes a menu entry in whatever passes
>> for a preferences menu.  That's what gsynaptics does in GNOME.
>> 
>> Here's the touchpad section of my xorg.conf:
>> 
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>          Identifier  "Synaptics"
>>          Driver      "synaptics"
>>          Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>>          Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>>          Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
>>          Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> The SHMConfig option needs to be set to use the GUI configurators.  From
>> the command line, you can also use synclient.  See the man page.
>> 
>
> I just reset the machine to test the wifi, and looking in xorg.conf:
> Section     "InputDevice"
>            Identifier      "Synaptics"
>            Driver        "synaptics"
>            Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>            Option        "Protocol"   "auto-dev"
>            Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Also, a tray icon with the synaptics options appeared. So it's
> working. However, it's all greyed out (I cannot change any options),
> and it complains that it cannot access shared memory.

That's what SHMConfig does is allow shared memory access for 
configuration.  After updating xorg.conf, you need to restart X.

>
> I just saw that it's set to emulate 3 buttons. So I hit the two
> buttons and it pasted. Cool. I'm glad that I looked at that.
>
> Dotan Cohen
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