Re: Synaptics touchpad switches apps in an undesirable way

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On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:22 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I've seen people tape a flap of cardboard over the touch pad if they
> use a mouse.

That is so tempting...  The simple solutions are often the best.

I've tried reconfiguring mine, but that causes its own problems:
Sometimes you need to use it, because you don't have the mouse, and you
really don't want to have to reconfigure things, yet again.  Disabling
the pad while typing adds annoying delays to your editing if you
actually do want to want to use the pad.  Disabling tapping doesn't
disable tapping 100% of the time on my system.  I wish it did, I have
real buttons on my laptop that don't accidentally trigger, but the pad
does.

Can we design something worse than the mouse?
Yes, here's a slow-as-stuck-in-molasses twiddle stick in the middle of
the keyboard, that's worse than steering the inertia-riddled ship in the
Asteroids game.
Can we design something worse than the stick?
Yes, here's a touch pad.  Sensitive to the movement of a fly, five feet
away.
I dread to think what comes next...

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