On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 08:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Robert G (Doc) Savage via users writes: > > > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new > > > hardware, > > > but I'm > > > having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, that's > > > slightly > > > above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning rust (I > > > haven't > > > gotten > > > quite aboard the SSD train, with its built-in expiration date). > > > > > > Tips and links appreciated. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Sam, > > > > If you can stand the price, the Lenovo ThinkPad P73 "mobile > > workstation" could be a serious horse for you. It offers two NVME > > slots > > that can support two very fast 2T SSDs. My ThinkPad P72 has those > > and > > 64GB of ECC memory. It can be ordered with an internal SATA hard > > drive > > if you really want "spinning rust." The only thing I haven't been > > able > > to figure out is how to disable the touchpad -- I'm a mouse guy. > > I love my old W520 Thinkpad. But I want to replace my workstations, > with two > spinning plates of rust inside each one. > > Insofar as X, if you want to disable the infernal click-to-tap, just > create > the following file: > > [mrsam@thinkpad ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-disable-taps.conf > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "tap-by-default" > MatchIsTouchpad "on" > Option "TapButton1" "0" > EndSection > > > This gets rid of the biggest annoyance, when it comes to touchpads. Sam, I tried to reply to you privately about this, but your mail system rejected it. I'm afraid creating that little file had no effect on my touchpad. I can disable the touchpad in Windows with a BIOS setting, but F30 doesn't seem to care. --Doc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
