[kde-linux] Programming a key to disable touchpad

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, christophe wrote:
> Le samedi 4 août 2007 11:07, Anne Wilson a écrit :
> > I need to work with an ancient laptop, and I'm having great difficulties
> > because when I am typing I frequently find that the input is appearing in
> > the middle of text somewhere else on the page.  The heel of my hand must
> > be brushing the touchpad.  Unlike my newer one, this laptop doesn't have
> > any Fn key programmed to disable it.  I'm sure it must be possible to do
> > that, but how can do it, and what command would the key need to be given?
> >  I would have though that kcontrol's Keyboard Shortcuts might be the way
> > to do it, but it's not obvious whether it could or not.
> >
> > Anne
>
> How about this command :
> synclient TouchpadOff=0

Same problem as KSynaptics, I think

"Can't access shared memory.  SHMConfig disabled?"  It seems that I have to 
create a stanza in xorg.conf, but I haven't yet figured out what needs to be 
in there.

Anne
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-linux/attachments/20070806/13d0f315/attachment.sig>