Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-03-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Bill Davidsen | David wrote: | > from the CLI (since no X) | > | > X -configure Interesting that "X -help" doesn't say anything about this option. Interesting that there is no X(1) manpage. There is no x(1) manpage. There is an Xserver(1) manpage. It cal

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-03-14 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Bill Davidsen | David wrote: | > from the CLI (since no X) | > | > X -configure Interesting that "X -help" doesn't say anything about this option. Interesting that there is no X(1) manpage. There is no x(1) manpage. There is an Xserver(1) manpage. It calls itself XSERVER(1) but that

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-03-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
David wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: I'm a lot more unhappy with leaving out the ability to do that. If system-config-display is at least installed the user has the tool, and doesn't need to install from command line. Not creating xorg.conf is reasonable, but if it doesn't work and you need xorg.c

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-21 Thread David
Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm a lot more unhappy with leaving out the ability to do that. If > system-config-display is at least installed the user has the tool, and > doesn't need to install from command line. Not creating xorg.conf is > reasonable, but if it doesn't work and you need xorg.conf you

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:20 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Thanks, but I did a lot of research prior to figuring this out and the consensus is that Fedora 10 left out xorg.conf for a reason and that it is not a good idea to use that approach anymore because it conflicts with th

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:20 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > Thanks, but I did a lot of research prior to figuring this out and the > > consensus is that Fedora 10 left out xorg.conf for a reason and that it > > is not a good idea to use that approach anymore because it conflicts > > with th

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linux Media wrote: I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step by step on how to do this from all the posts... Copy/Rename the FDI file... cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi edit this file (11-synaptics.f

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-19 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 08:21 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:19 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > > Copy/Rename the FDI file... > > cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi > > You do want to make sure that you add in a user cust

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-19 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 06:52 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > the consensus is that Fedora 10 left out xorg.conf for a reason and > that it is not a good idea to use that approach anymore because it > conflicts with the new approach. Unless you plan to change graphics cards or monitors, I see no problem

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-19 Thread Linux Media
I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step by step on how to do this from all the posts... Copy/Rename the FDI file... cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
Linux Media wrote: I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step by step on how to do this from all the posts... Copy/Rename the FDI file... cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi edit this file (11-synaptics.f

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-18 Thread Linux Media
Copy/Rename the FDI file... cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi You do want to make sure that you add in a user custom config file, not modify the default one. Because, otherwise, you'll lose your customisation at the next yum upd

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-18 Thread phil
Linux Media wrote: >>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List >>> Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. >>> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi >>> over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or h

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-18 Thread phil
Linux Media wrote: Linux Media wrote: >> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora >> List Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my >> mouse pad. >> >> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi >> over and over, but apparently, I don

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-18 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:35:09AM -0700, Linux Media wrote: > fred smith wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:12:29AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > >>On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:55 -0500, fred smith wrote: > >> > >But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the > >"SHMConfig" "

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-18 Thread Linux Media
fred smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:12:29AM -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:55 -0500, fred smith wrote: But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the "SHMConfig" "on" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then using Synaptics? I believe that execu

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:33:41PM +1030, Tim wrote: > Craig White: > >> Which part of this are you struggling with? > > fred smith: > > trying to do it without having to create xorg.conf. > > > > i've done all the steps with the synaptics.fdi file, and it doesn't > > seem to disable the touchpad

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Tim
Craig White: >> Which part of this are you struggling with? fred smith: > trying to do it without having to create xorg.conf. > > i've done all the steps with the synaptics.fdi file, and it doesn't > seem to disable the touchpad, either. Oh well, it's not a huge deal, > I just thought it would be

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:12:29AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:55 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > > > But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the > > > > "SHMConfig" "on" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then using Synaptics? > > > > > > I believe

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-17 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:19 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > Copy/Rename the FDI file... > cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi You do want to make sure that you add in a user custom config file, not modify the default one. Because, othe

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10 (solved)

2009-02-17 Thread Linux Media
I not only wanted to send a 'Solved' post, but pieced together a step by step on how to do this from all the posts... Copy/Rename the FDI file... cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi \ /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics.fdi edit this file (11-synaptics.fdi) as indicated in

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:55 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > But do you know how to properly shut off mouse taps without the > > > "SHMConfig" "on" option in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then using Synaptics? > > > > I believe that executing 'synclient TouchpadOff=1' should do > > that...without an

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:55:28PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:18:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:08 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > > > >>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > > >>> Archives. All I need to

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:18:05AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:08 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > > >>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > >>> Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. > > >>> > > >>> I'

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:08 -0700, Linux Media wrote: > >>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > >>> Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. > >>> > >>> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi > >>

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linux Media
I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all works. And all I go

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 wrote: > NO, NO, NO ! Sheesh ! > > SHMConfig is a setting in the xorg.conf file. It can also be enabled through an FDI file, and that's the recommended way to enable it! Though editing the system-provided FDI file is a bad idea, you should create your own FDI file in the appropriate

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linux Media
>> [CUT] All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all works. And all I got was fragmented pieces of information from my research. I wo

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:37 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:09 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:01:13AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > > > > >

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linux Media
>>> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List >>> Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. >>> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi >>> over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it >>> really all wor

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:17 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:09 -0500, fred smith wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:01:13AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > > > > Linux Media wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I've spent

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > > Linux Media wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > > Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. > > > > > >

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:09 -0500, fred smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:01:13AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > > > Linux Media wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > > > Arch

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:01:13AM -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > > Linux Media wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > > Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. > > >

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:13 +, phil wrote: > Linux Media wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List > > Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. > > > > I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi o

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread Linux Media
Linux Media wrote: >> I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora >> List Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my >> mouse pad. >> >> I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi >> over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-17 Thread phil
Linux Media wrote: Hi, I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it reall

Re: Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
Please start a new subject instead of replying to an existing one. It's not the same thing! Most people on mailing lists use mail programs which understand threading, so a reply shows up as part of the thread you're replying to, which is wrong. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fe

Disabling mouse taps on Fedora 10

2009-02-16 Thread Linux Media
Hi, I've spent the whole day googling and looking at the Fedora List Archives. All I need to do is disable mouse taps in my mouse pad. I've edited /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-synaptics.fdi over and over, but apparently, I don't know the syntax or how it really all works. And al