Workaround for Ksynaptics. (Was preventing people from making a mistake)

[Rick Stevens]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 13:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 08 December 2008, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> This point in this thread seems as appropriate as any to mention
>>> syndaemon.  It's part of the synaptics (now xorg-x11-drv-synaptics)
>>> package.  When it runs, it disables the touchpad while the user is
>>> actively typing on the keyboard and re-enables it after a brief pause
>>> after the user stops typing.  Sounds very neat.  (I haven't felt the
>>> need to actually use it, as I don't have too much trouble with
>>> accidental tapping of my current touchpad.)
>>>
>>> It does require setting SHMConfig, though, so that problem still needs
>>> to be addressed.

I don't think syndaemon requires SHMConfig.  synclient does.

>> Not applicable for F8 it appears, from the description of it that I am looking 
>> at on my yumex screen right now, there is zero, nada, no mention of being 
>> able to disable it with the currently available synaptics-0.14.6-3.fc8.rpm 
>> package.  It is as if the old package is gone, and replaced by a totally new 
>> one without that capability.
> 
> I wouldn't look there (at least not now that I'm older and wiser and
> know where to look for this particular program).  If you have the
> synaptics package installed, try 'man syndaemon'.  I don't have an F8
> machine handy anymore, but I'm sure it was there.  It's been there for
> many generations of Fedora, and probably before that.

It's on F8 and F7 (and F6 IIRC).  I used it a lot on F8 on my laptop
as the touchpad was way too sensitive to my thumb whacking the spacebar.
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