Touchpad - Configure it!

Feisty Fawn lacks the ability to personalize the Synaptics Touchpad. Here are a few tips. These can be also applied to other distros.

Backup xorg.conf

• First of all, backup your xorg.conf

$ sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup


Enable/Disable Touchpad

• Edit you xorg.conf

$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• find «Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"» and change it to: ("SHMConfig" "true")
  

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver  "synaptics"
Option  "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option  "Device"  "/dev/psaux"
Option  "Protocol"  "auto-dev"
Option  "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
 Option  "SHMConfig"  "true"
EndSection

• Disable: (go to terminal and type:)

$ synclient TouchpadOff=1

• Enable:
  

$ synclient TouchpadOff=0

Disable Touchpad while typing
It's annoying when a person is typing and touch accidentally in the touchpad. This tip disables the touchpad for 'x' seconds when you press a key. It needs the configuration(xorg.conf) carried through in the previous tip to work.

• Go to terminal and type: (disables touchpad for 1 second)

$ syndaemon -i 1 -d

visit syndaemon page for more info

Gsynaptics
Gsynaptics allows to configure your Touchpad. It enables/disables touchpad/tapping and configure scroll movements.

(click on screenshot to enlarge)

• Install:

$ sudo apt-get install gsynaptics

• Run at terminal:

$ gsynaptics

• Or go to System » Preferences » Touchpad
  

Note: for KDE » ksynaptics

Add these tips to startup
If you like some of these tips, and you pretend to use it every time, just add it to start up.

• Go to System » Preferences » Sessions:

Click New,
Name: 1sec touchpad
Code: syndaemon -i 1 -d

repeat procedure to any desire program..