momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-19 Thread William Shu
Hi, I have SL 6.0 installed on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive, which I use on various laptops (and desktops). The touchpad is so sensitive on some machines and I would like to disable it. At the same time, the attached mouse seems to be selectively responsive, notably its left button. Look

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-19 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.19 at 16:28:32 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > I have SL 6.0 installed on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive, which > I use on various laptops (and desktops). The touchpad is so sensitive > on some machines and I would like to disable it. At the same time, the > att

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-19 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.19 at 16:28:32 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > I have SL 6.0 installed on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive, which > I use on various laptops (and desktops). The touchpad is so sensitive > on some machines and I would like to disable it. At the same time, the > att

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-19 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 09/19/2011 04:28 PM, William Shu wrote: Hi, I have SL 6.0 installed on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive, which I use on various laptops (and desktops). The touchpad is so sensitive on some machines and I would like to disab

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-20 Thread William Shu
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Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-20 Thread William Shu
ystem!) While I would like to see your version work, the solution proposed by Vladimir would meet my needs better when it works! William. From: Todd And Margo Chester To: "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov" Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:55 A

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-20 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.20 at 13:24:20 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > Vladimir, > Thank you so much for the suggestion. I followed the instructions on the web > page. For a moment it seems it will not work, then the touchpad was actually > disabled, but I have no clue what I did. Then, of

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-20 Thread William Shu
: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.20 at 13:24:20 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > Vladimir, > Thank you so much for the suggestion. I followed the instructions on the web > page. For a moment it seems it will not work, then the touchpad was actually > dis

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-20 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.20 at 15:34:50 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > Yes, I did create the fdi file, see below. (I also copied the file from > /usr/share/hal/policy/99-synaptics.fdi  to > /usr/share/hal/policy/20thirdparty/99-ssynaptics.fdi and renamed originals to > *.save) > > > You

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-21 Thread William Shu
cientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:03 PM Subject: Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad Hi William Shu! On 2011.09.20 at 13:24:20 -0700, William Shu wrote next: > Vladimir, > Thank you so much for the suggestion. I followed the instructions on the web >

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-21 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
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/reproduci

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-21 Thread William Shu
- Original Message - > From: Vladimir Mosgalin > To: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:35 PM > Subject: Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad > > Hi William Shu! > > On 2011.09.21 at 03:48:40 -0700, Willi

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-21 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
To: "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov" Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:55 AM Subject: Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad On 09/19/2011 04:28 PM, William Shu

Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

2011-09-21 Thread William Shu
x27;s/.*id=\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p'`" Regards, William. > >From: Todd And Margo Chester >To: "scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov" >Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:31 PM >Subject: Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad > &