Touch Pad Sensitivity

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Sun Nov 27 15:50:56 UTC 2005


On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Lovell Mcilwain wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way that I can decrease the tap sensitivity or turn off the
> tap option on my touch pad?
>
> I am having this annoying problem that when I am typing my palm or some
> part of my hand brushes up against the touch pad and starts me typing in
> another part of the text that I have already typed.  I thought I could
> live with it but I really can't  :) .  I tried changing my typing so my
> wrists are up higher but no luck.  So now I would like to try turning
> off the tap option (if there is a way to do that) and see if I am better
> off without it.
>
> I am using Fedora Core 4 on a Compaq Presario R3000

Is this a Synaptics touchpad?  If so, you probably have the synaptics RPM 
installed.  It includes a program called syndaemon, which disables the 
touchpad while you are typing.

I haven't felt the need, but it might do the job for you.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Lovell
>
>
>

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