Re: Kudos to whomever worked on the synaptics touchpad driver !

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Oct 31, 2004, Kim Lux <lux diesel-research com> wrote:

> a) I dislike the "select when heldover" because it sometimes opens
> things I don't want to have opened.  Is there a way to disable this ? 

/usr/share/doc/synaptics*/README

> b) The cursor gets a little jumpy in the corners, most noticeably when
> trying to open the menu in KDE.  I'm wondering if there is something in
> the cursor positioning algorithm that causes this.

Edge scrolling?  You can turn that off if you like.

> Question: is there a way to set the synaptics device parameters in a
> graphical tool, ie like system-config-mouse ?

There is such a graphical tool, but it's not in Fedora Core, and you
have to have SHMConfig enabled.  I don't remember the exact name of
the tool, but I googled around for it a bit and found it very quickly.

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