flSynclient settings aren't persistent - SOLVED

[capnpaco]

Hi everybody! I've been using Puppy for a week or two. This is my first experience with Linux and I'm loving it!

I am having one issue with flSynclient (the touchpad setup utility). Every time I boot up Puppy, I have to disable tapping. Specifically, in flSynclient's "tapping" tab, I set the "tap time" and "double tap time" values to 0. This successfully disables the tapping feature on the touchpad, but for whatever reason these changes are never saved in the Pupsave file, so that when I restart the computer I have to make the same changes in flSynclient again.

Is there a way I can get these settings to persist? Or, perhaps more easily, is there a series of console commands that I can use to set the "tap time" and "double tap time" to 0, so that I can just save those commands as an executable file to my desktop?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[L18L]

Hi capnpaco,

I do not have a touchpad and no experience with flsynclient
but the command line tool is synclient

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# synclient -?
synclient: invalid option -- '?'
Usage: synclient [-s] [-m interval] [-h] [-l] [-V] [-?] [var1=value1 [var2=value2] ...]
  -m monitor changes to the touchpad state (implies -s)
     interval specifies how often (in ms) to poll the touchpad state
  -l List current user settings
  -V Print synclient version string and exit
  -? Show this help message
  var=value  Set user parameter 'var' to 'value'.
# 

Making persistent:
Put the commands that you have found to do the job into the file:
/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Hope that you can help yourself now
Good luck

[capnpaco]

L18L,

Thanks for the quick reply! Changing the rc.local file didn't seem to work (perhaps I'm putting the commands in the wrong part of the file), but I was able to use the synclient commands to do the job and put a handy executable / button on my desktop. Problem solved as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks again!

[L18L]

...Changing the rc.local file didn't seem to work...

Sorry, I forgot to write: and reboot
Glad to have been helpful

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