On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 10:35 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 12 February 2009 06:06:03 Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Oh, and watch the progress of > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480573 (libsynaptics does not > > support current synaptics driver). > > > The laptop that I have that needs this is not up to running KDE4 anyway, but I > know there are others that do use this, so I hope it gets resolved. Thanks > for answering > > Anne Hi Anne. Here is a solution that does work on my laptop. The difference between this approach and the one I previously used is the version of the driver. # yum install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics $ synclient TouchpadOff=1 After this, my touchpad is OFF. I am now in the process of writing a PyQt gui that manages Synaptics touchpads. LG