Just to clarify, I see the left-pointing hand, but that's just a symptom, I can't do anything with the mouse like use the pager or any other application. Cursor movement isn't restricted to one window. I get out of it by using the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl-arrow which normally jumps to another pane in the pager. So ctrl-right, ctrl-left and I'm usually back where I started with the problem cleared. I use fvwm which is the default window manager. I don't know what the version history of that is but it could be the problem.
> It would be helpful if I could get the synaptics driver running first. ;) > The problem is I am unsure what kind of driver my touchpad uses, and > xinput reveals this: Take a look at the mouse stuff in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it should show you what mouse driver you're using. I know what you mean, I've gone to great lengths to turn off "tap to click" in a few laptops. With my current Dell Latitude D530 it defaults to off, at least I couldn't find where I'm turning it off and I don't remember doing it. I don' t have an Xorg.conf, everything works (almost) perfectly without one. I am using the synaptics driver and no tap to click. It was just the default. -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX
