Laptop mouse pad special functions?

paddyjoy · 05-10-2006, 06:40 AM

The mouse pad on my Sony VAIO has some special functions, for example if I slide my finger up/down the right hand side of the pad the page scrolls up/down.

Does anyone know how to configure or even turn off these functions? They are driving me crazy

Thanks
Paddy

Penguin of Wonder · 05-10-2006, 08:07 AM

Are you running KDE? Isn't there a "mouse options" menu some where in the settings panel? If that dosen't work you can always turn it off totally or unload the drivers.

elliott678 · 05-10-2006, 02:50 PM

Check out the man pages for synaptics and synclient. Just about every feature of the touchpad is configurable.

paddyjoy · 05-11-2006, 12:31 AM

Thanks that's exactly what I was looking for, after reading the man pages I found all the settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'm using gnome and there are no advanced mouse settings in the mouse section, would be nice if there was a GUI for the synaptic settings.

Paddy

elliott678 · 05-11-2006, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by paddyjoy

would be nice if there was a GUI for the synaptic settings

There is "gsynaptics", it provides the basic settings for scrolling and tapping. It is a front-end for synclient so SHMConfig must be on in your xorg.conf and I think gsynaptics-init must start when X starts to be able to restore your settings.