On Saturday 16 January 2010 09:02:28 am Wendell Nichols wrote: > I use Fedora on a thinkpad T61p. Most things are good, but when I'm > away from my desk using it on my lap I find that many movements on > the touchpad cause the desktop to rapidly cycle through apps on the > desktop. All of these are accidents but I just can't keep from > accidentally striking the scroll areas of the pad, and depending on > where the cursor is, madly switching desktops and apps. So I'm > constantly having to reposition myself on the correct app and > restore hidden windows. > Is there any way to disable this behaviour? > I use fedora 10 and 11 with kde. > wcn > _______________________________________________ > laptop mailing list > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop > You don't say which version of kde you're using, but search their site for kcm_touchpad. I got it from the community repo.for openSUSE 11.2. They should have a version for fedora also. After you install it, there will be an entry in "Configure Desktop/General/Keyboard & Mouse/Touchpad where you can change its settings. -- Thanks, Tom (retired penguin) openSUSE 11.2 x86_64, KDE 4.3.1 linxt@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop