[ltp] Disabling moving/tapping touchpad but leave scrolling?

[Andrew Barr]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:40, Jiang Qian wrote:
> Hi All:
> I use trackpoint exclusively on my T43, therefore I'm annoyed when I
> accidentally touch the touchpad and cause the mouse to move wildly.
> However I do find vertical and horizontal scrolling with touchpad edge
> useful when viewing large pictures or webpages.
>
> Is there a way to disable the synaptic touchpad so that it does not move
> the mouse nor tap to create click, but still able to use as a scroll
> wheel on the edge?  

I'm not sure about that specifically but the synaptics driver has a shared 
memory configuration interface that programs can use to do things like that. 
There is gsynaptics for the GNOME desktop and qsynaptics/ksynaptics for KDE. 
I use Ksynaptics and KDE and it has a tray icon with "Disable tapping" 
and "disable touch pad" options on it's pop up menu, which sounds at least 
close to what you want, but...

> I'm using Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 with custom 6.15.7 
> kernel and Xorg 6.8.2 synaptic touchpad version 0.13.6

If you are using GNOME (as is the default in Ubuntu), I don't know what the 
gsynaptics program can do.

> Thanks in advance for insights.
>
> Jiang

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