Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.21 at 03:48:40 -0700, William Shu wrote next:
> A) using synclient and syndaemon (partial success). > > syndaemon works all the time, but synclient only works *sometimes*. However, > I'm not sure what I did, as my activities (below) don't seem > repeatable/reproducible. My guess is they are being controlled/overidden from > two or more independent sources. > > First, I reversed the order of lines in *.fdi file, though I'm not convinced > that matters, to: > > <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> > <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge> Did you try "on", btw? I believe "true" might be deprecated. Unfortunately, I can't assist you on gnome interfering issues.. these are hard to debug and deal with. Can give another idea, though - there is alternative way to turning touchpad off while typing with syndaemon - it's to make it ignore palm touch, the synclient setting for that is described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics#Disable_Trackpad_while_Typing (sadly, most of this article contents is for Xorg 8 w/udev, so it won't work with SL6 which uses Xorg 7.4 w/hal) > B) gnome desktop manipulation (unsuccessful). > The script for gnome could not work. complained of not finding > "/desktop/gnome/...". find could not trace it (rooted elsewhere) and so I > abandon the approach. There won't be such file - it's gconf key (you can browse around with gconf-editor after installing corresponding package, for example). But if there is no such key, probably touchpad manipulation from isn't supported on SL6.. (this key exists on Fedora system, for example). > > Once more, thanks for the assistance. No problem, I'm glad at least some solution worked :) -- Vladimir