This may be more an up stream issue for Gnome or x.org, but it does seriously impact the usability of FC on laptops: With recent versions of FC (I think since FC4) I've found using the touchpad on my laptop a frustrating experience: The Firefox browser would go back a page at random (eg you compose an email in gmail, you then reach for the send button, but the browser would just go back to the login page before you can reach the send button). Last night after some research I finally discovered this seems to be related to the Synaptics driver in X.org. There is all sorts of fancy stuff to emulate button 4,5,6 and 7 etc. It turns out that by default if you slide your finger from right to left near the bottom of the pad you get a button 6 event which will cause Firefox to go back a page. As far as I can tell there is zero documentation on this on the FC distribution. The Desktop->Preferences menu assumes you are using a mouse. There should be a finger pad menu item there also. I think it would be best to keep the touch pad functionality at a minimum by default (ie just mouse movement and button 1 by tapping) and allow the user to enable extra stuff through the configuration menus. BTW: this touchpad driver project is at: http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ and a touch pad configuration utility here: http://ltpconf.sourceforge.net/sshots.html Joe. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
