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mahaju

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 491 Location: between the keyboard and the chair
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 00:15 Post subject:
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Hi
I am using Compaq 620 laptop with Intel Celeron processor
My puppy is lucid Puppy 5.1.1, frugal install and on an SD Card
It looks like my laptop's touch pad is very sensitive inside puppy and so even if I just move my cursor over some icons or windows, it some times randomly clicks it
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Also, if I go to setup -> Mouse/Keyboard wizard -> Configure your touch pad, I get a message "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics drivers loaded?"
Thanks
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mill0001
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 375 Location: "People's Republik of Kalifornia"
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 01:16 Post subject:
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Try this: menu-shutdown-exit to prompt or contol-alt-backspace and then type xorgwizard. Go thru setup of xorg again, when you're done type xwin to restart X. Now you should have synaptics driver loaded and look for flsynclient in your menu to adjust it with.
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mahaju

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 491 Location: between the keyboard and the chair
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 01:19 Post subject:
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Does the touchpad configuration box have what I need in this situation?
Please don't mind if this is a silly question because I really don't know
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puppyluvr

Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3512 Location: Chickasha Oklahoma
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 02:02 Post subject:
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Hello,
Yes, if you got that far, the flsynclient should be loaded,
or else it will ask you to restart X windows..
Amongst the tabs will be a sensitivity setting..
My Compaq CQ-56 has the same "over sensitive" problem...
I had to turn it WAY down....
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 03:50 Post subject:
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One guy told us to go below 1 this way. 0.5 or maybe 0,5 don't remember.
Mine was so sensitive that I use a USB Mouse instead and an external real USB keyboard to not be near the ultra sensitive touch pad.
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not an ideal solution though
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r1tz

Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 165 Location: In #puppylinux (IRC)
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 03:57 Post subject:
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I find it very interesting how i can control my touchpad with my finger 1cm away
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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Sun 26 Jun 2011, 04:03 Post subject:
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perhaps search for author 'stu90' and someting like 'xorg' , 'xorg.conf' or 'touchpad' . He posted one or two entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf , which seems to have worked for him .
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mahaju

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 491 Location: between the keyboard and the chair
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 12:54 Post subject:
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Hi everyone
I followed your instructions and was able to get the flsynclient to run and also was able to reduce the sensitivity of the touchpad, however, when I tap it it's not detecting a click, and sometimes the cursor just erratically jumps to random locations on the screen. Also, the verticle scrolling at the right edge of the touchpad is working, but sometimes for very brief moments, the verticle scrolling feature becomes transparent, as if it was not present, and very rarely, at odd moments it automatically detects a click. In fact, this happened then I was trying to write "Hi" at the beginning of this post, but has not happened upto this point. I want it to move as smoothly as it does with the Windows 7 that was shipped with this laptop. Any ideas on how I can do this? I also don't understand what few of the sliders in the flsynclient window do. Where can I get detailed information about this? Also, the tooltip above the save button says "saving to ~./flsynclient" but I don't seem to be able to open it using geany, and typing flsynclient at the console just opens up the touchpad configuration window.
What should I do now?
Thanks in advance.
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 13:08 Post subject:
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mahaju wrote: | Hi everyone
I followed your instructions and was able to get the flsynclient to run and also was able to reduce the sensitivity of the touchpad, however, when I tap it it's not detecting a click, and sometimes the cursor just erratically jumps to random locations on the screen. Also, the verticle scrolling at the right edge of the touchpad is working, but sometimes for very brief moments, the verticle scrolling feature becomes transparent, as if it was not present, and very rarely, at odd moments it automatically detects a click. In fact, this happened then I was trying to write "Hi" at the beginning of this post, but has not happened upto this point. I want it to move as smoothly as it does with the Windows 7 that was shipped with this laptop. Any ideas on how I can do this? I also don't understand what few of the sliders in the flsynclient window do. Where can I get detailed information about this? Also, the tooltip above the save button says "saving to ~./flsynclient" but I don't seem to be able to open it using geany, and typing flsynclient at the console just opens up the touchpad configuration window.
What should I do now?
Thanks in advance.
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Go into /root/ in your filemanager. set it to show hidden files. Load the file .flsynclient into a text editor (right click, select 'open as text') Look for the entry 'clickfinger3=' and set the value to '1', so : clickfinger3= 1
Your problems will be solved. (I hope)
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pemasu

Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5485 Location: Finland
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 13:14 Post subject:
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Also disabling touchpad when writing might help. I have made a pet of my configuration. Restarting X is needed.
The pet should disable touchpad when writing and touchpad start to work almost immediately when you stop writing. It has helped my problem.
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pemasu

Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5485 Location: Finland
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 13:17 Post subject:
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double post.
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mahaju

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 491 Location: between the keyboard and the chair
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 20:49 Post subject:
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pemasu wrote: | Also disabling touchpad when writing might help. I have made a pet of my configuration. Restarting X is needed.
The pet should disable touchpad when writing and touchpad start to work almost immediately when you stop writing. It has helped my problem. |
Hi
Could you please give me somfe information as to how your system works? Is it like a keylogger that continuously checks if keyboard key has been pressed? And is this going to solve my erractically jumping cursor problem?
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pemasu

Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5485 Location: Finland
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 03:56 Post subject:
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That pet disables touchpad when writing. It uses syndaemon to do that. My pet has rules how syndaemon behaves. Nothing else. Usually best way to see if the pet has positive effects, is to install the pet and test it yourself. If it does not, uninstall the pet.
Instructions for syndaemon: Code: | syndaemon -K -d -i 0.3 |
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mahaju

Joined: 11 Oct 2010 Posts: 491 Location: between the keyboard and the chair
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Posted: Wed 06 Jul 2011, 04:06 Post subject:
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ok Thanks a lot
I will try it this evening
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