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wdef · Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 91

No obvious errors in Xorg.0.log..

But touchpad tapping is not working in lieu of a left-click.

This is on a HP dv4000 series laptop.

Something missing from Xorg.conf to enable this?

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

I tune my xorg.conf like this for touchpad:

Option "MaxTapTime" "225"
Option "MaxTapMove" "225"

First one is tap, second is "double tap lock" for moving windows.

also like this right now:

Option "MinSpeed" "0.20"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.25"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.010"

Everyone is going to like it a bit different I think.

Was also going to try to observe this with different resolutions to see if it made a change to behaviour in itself.

*note. If you remaster the wizard, there are TWO places where you change that. Originally I did a quich search and just changed the first. It didn't work Embarassed

wdef · Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 91

Option "MaxTapTime" "225"
Option "MaxTapMove" "225"

did it.

Puppy had MaxTapTime set to 0.

That saved me some man page wading, thanks.

Should Puppy's auto running of xorgwizard during boot set this up by itself though?

Tapping worked fine in previous Puppies.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 21 May 2007, 20:22 Post subject:

The problem is that "tapping" drove some of us nuts. On my laptop, it is too sensitive, if my fingers get accidentally onto the touchpad, odd things suddenly happen. So I think Dougal and kirk configured the Wizard with that in mind.

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

Remember I mentioned the tapping was too sensitive when you were building 2.x?

I think you'll find that with the Synaptic driver loaded tapping is ok again and one doesn't get as many "random clicks" while moving the cursor.

Not that I'm advocating a change, everyone is going to end up liking something different (I had to change speed and acceleration myself to get it like I like [still working on it]).

Just wanted to make sure you gave it a second chance with the new drivers. I find it's much nicer to give a thump on the pad sometimes instead of listening to the click of the button. The button will wear out eventually also, so I thump for now.

wdef · Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 91

I agree - tapping is more controlled with the synaptics driver.

I don't seem to need to change any other touchpad settings (though I spent a lot of time getting these right with Fedora).

Tapping worked out of the box without the synaptics driver too (no scrolling though), but I agree it did lack control - esp with the earlier rox version I found windows flying open seemingly by themselves. It was very annoying. That improved when I tried one of the newer rox-2.5 packages, configured differently I suppose.

In 2.16, there's no control problem at all with tapping.

Since I tend to thump my notebook keyboard like Leon Russell in the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, tapping reduces a lot of wear on the left click pad (and my wrists).

dcg · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 27

I am an old man but pretty new to puppy.I have been troubled with
nonfunctioning Acer touchpad, and thanks to reading your posts the
problem is solved.Thanks again to John Doe, wdef, and of course B.
Kauler and all administrators.
Thanks Kindly....dcg

Béèm · Posted: Sat 24 Nov 2007, 06:17 Post subject:

laptopnewbee · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 165

and now i know how to kill that annoying thing on my laptop while in puppy.

edit:
now that i have read the rest of the thread i can offer a suggestion for anyone who wants to disable the pointer control. because i sometimes lose function of my usb mouse due to other usb devices causing issues, it turns out that the ability to fall back to the touch pad for mousing is useful. i'm currently looking for a bit of plastic that i can make into a decent looking cover for the pad. this will prevent stray fingers from activating it in error.

Béèm · Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2007, 18:42 Post subject:

This http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/25/70-how-to-disabling-your-touchpad-while-typing seems to be a solution, but synclient and syndaemon aren't implemented.

laptopnewbee · Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 165

Béèm · Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:11 Post subject:

No this syndaemon and synclient are not in Puppy.
I did a search. I don't know if they can be compiled separately or that they have to be included in a kernel compile.

Nobody seems to be able to answer questions about this.

lgoldstar · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Just upgraded to 3.01 and lost touchpad functionality. This solution worked great and everything is back to normal.

Keep up the great work on this excellent distro!

-L

Swarup · Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 219

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK