Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way [Fixed]

2010-01-17 Thread Wendell Nichols
Wendell Nichols wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> >> >>> I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they >>> use a mouse. >>> >>> >> That is so tempting... The simple solutions are often the best. >> >> I

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-17 Thread Wendell Nichols
Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they >> use a mouse. >> > > That is so tempting... The simple solutions are often the best. > > I've tried reconfiguring mine, but that causes its own pro

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Andras Simon
On 1/16/10, Tim wrote: > > Can we design something worse than the mouse? > Yes, here's a slow-as-stuck-in-molasses twiddle stick in the middle of > the keyboard, that's worse than steering the inertia-riddled ship in the > Asteroids game. > Can we design something worse than the stick? > Yes, her

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 16 January 2010, Tim wrote: >On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they >> use a mouse. > >That is so tempting... The simple solutions are often the best. > >I've tried reconfiguring mine, but that cause

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they > use a mouse. That is so tempting... The simple solutions are often the best. I've tried reconfiguring mine, but that causes its own problems: Sometimes you need to use i

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 18:22 +0100, Stefano Cavallari wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2010 18:02:28 Wendell Nichols wrote: > > I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm > > away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the > > touchpad cause the deskt

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:02 -0700, Wendell Nichols wrote: > I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm > away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the > touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the > desktop. All of these are

Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Stefano Cavallari
On Saturday 16 January 2010 18:02:28 Wendell Nichols wrote: > I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm > away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the > touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the > desktop. All of these are

Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

2010-01-16 Thread Wendell Nichols
I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on the touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the desktop. All of these are accidents but I just can't keep from accidentally striking the s