On 22/01/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 02:59, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Monday 22 January 2007 02:06, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I've got a Dell 6400 / E1505 laptop. The great engineers at Dell put >> the touchpad so close to the keyboard that I'm hitting it every five >> minutes by mistake. Is there and _easy_ way to enable/disable it? Like >> a keyboard shortcut, hardware button, or panel applet (KDE)? >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > >Is there a key programmed (in windows) to turn it off? There is on my > Acer, and it works equally well in linux. The ancient Packard Bell > doesn't have such a key, so I suffer as you do. > >Anne I'm using a "synaptics" utility, kills that bad puppy completely. But it puts an icon in the tray you can click on to re-enable it. Using an optical wireless mouse plugged into a usb port, the only time I ever clicked on it was to see if it worked, it did.
Thanks, Gene. How do I start synaptics? I've installed it, but I don't see anything in the menus nor in Kcontrol. Also, typing synaptics at the command line returns a command not found error. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/black_light.html http://nirot.com
