On Tuesday 28 April 2015 02:53:28 Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:02:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 April 2015 23:53:00 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-27 23:10 (UTC-0400): > > > > Mint 17.1 Xfce. I had to make that directory, and moved it to > > > > 50-synaptics.conf in that otherwise empty, newly created dir. > > > > Rebooted now, I'll check. Nope, not a noticeable difference. > > > > Copy of Xorg.0.log attached. > > > > > > > > As of the last reboot, correspnding to the Xorg.0.log attached, > > > > there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. > > > > > > > > May be you can see something in the logfile I cannot? > > > > > > Nothing I recognize. Something else you can try is putting a file > > > of whatever name you please in $HOME, then export > > > 'XORGCONFIG=whatever' in .bashrc. If that doesn't work either, > > > maybe there's a bug or the ignore option for synaptics has been > > > removed. Or, maybe Mint is using the libinput driver instead of > > > the synaptics driver and there's a whole different methodology > > > required to disable it. > > > > Sound like I ought to head back over to their list & see if I can > > synthesize some hate & discontent. They have been nice, but also > > less than helpfull on this front. > > > > I'll give this a shot too, but from what I see in the startup log > > for x, it isn't looking at anything I have done so far, so I don't > > have any great hopes that the above might work. Sigh. > > from your log: > [ 39.796] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Apr 27 > 22:54:01 2015 > [ 39.851] (==) Using system config directory > "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" > > from my log: > [370012.609] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Tue Apr 28 > 13:09:52 2015 > [370012.610] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" > [370012.610] (==) Using system config directory > "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" > > Check your/mint's configure options. This is rather odd.
Odd? I'll nominate that for understatement of the month. I have now read everything in /etc/X11, and everything in /usr/share/X11 to no avail. Without finding a clue as to which of these directories that LOOK like the configuration directories is used. Nothing I can edit into 50-synaptics.conf, no matter where I find it, does a thing. I just commented out the whole touchpad stanza in evdev too. Zero effect. It, and its buttons still work after the reboot. My patience runneth out. I am tired, sick to death of its focus stealing, or highlighting the whole message as I type, to have the whole damned message disappeaar before I can stop my fingers from typing the next character. I want it 100% gone. Effectively an empty hole in the lappies panel. Can you kind folks recommend a distribution with a lightweight gui that actually works?, or do I have to open this 12 year old puny powered lappy up and physically disconnect the touchpad? > Cheers, > Peter Thanks Peter. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
