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Offline Newlife

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<SOLVED>Synaptiks Problem
« on: June 12, 2011, 05:30:00 PM »
Running a Dell Latitude D620 fully updated with PCLOS 2010....

"Synaptiks" installed.

Problem?   The cursor moves a SMALL distance when finger moves across entire touch pad, requiring many "swipes" to cross the screen.  Is there any adjustment to make cursor travel greater distance with single swipe?

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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2011, 06:21:10 PM »
i just used gsynaptics and it has a option to accelerate mouse and also the sensitivity

also in kde control center you can find another option form the mouse
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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2011, 07:22:36 PM »
If you are running KDE, you can install kcm-touchpad from synaptic that will put a module in Configure Your Desktop that has touchpad controls.
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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2011, 08:34:02 PM »
WELL...
I installed kcm-touchpad and gsynaptics.....

kcm seems to be accessed in "Configure Your Desktop"  and gsynaptics ??? I had to go to /bin to get it to come up.

HOWEVER.... nothing seems to cause the cursor to move FARTHER with a single pass across the touch pad.  In XP one trip across the pad and the cursor traverses the entire page.

Any other ideas???

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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 09:10:56 AM »
Development on gsynaptics has stopped and it will soon become outdated.  GPointingDeviceSettings is probably a better bet.

I don't think it's in the PCLOS repo's, but you can download a tarball here--
http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings

If GUI options don't work for you, you will probably need to do some manual editing of the xorg.conf file.  I don't know enough about the file to advise you, though.
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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2011, 01:43:04 PM »
Quote from: ericthered on June 15, 2011, 09:10:56 AM
Development on gsynaptics has stopped and it will soon become outdated.  GPointingDeviceSettings is probably a better bet.

I don't think it's in the PCLOS repo's, but you can download a tarball here--
http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings

If GUI options don't work for you, you will probably need to do some manual editing of the xorg.conf file.  I don't know enough about the file to advise you, though.


It is in Synaptic:
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Configuration tool for pointing devices
GUI tool for setting pointing device such as TrackPoint or Touchpad. It
allows configuring of various drivers parameters on the fly.
It is a successor of GSynaptics.
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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2011, 01:45:35 PM »
Quote from: johnmart on June 12, 2011, 07:22:36 PM
If you are running KDE, you can install kcm-touchpad from synaptic that will put a module in Configure Your Desktop that has touchpad controls.

That's what I would recommend too. I use it to turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in etc. etc. works cool.

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Re: Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2011, 01:47:10 PM »
About the touchpad sensitivity... I must have a look in my system.

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Re: <SOLVED> Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2011, 06:36:57 PM »
THANKS ALL:

Solved by installing from Synaptics --GPointingDeviceSettings.

I could only access this via /usr/bin and clicking on it.
Then selecting the "speed" tab and moving the last two sliders to maximum.

Now it works great.
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Re: <SOLVED>Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2011, 08:45:48 AM »
All these touchpad problem appear to be fixed of you upgrade to kernel 2.6.38.8 and KDE 4.6.4.
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Re: <SOLVED>Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2011, 12:57:05 AM »
I too am having touchpad problems. Off to try Synaptiks on my KDE install. Will report back.
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Re: <SOLVED>Synaptiks Problem
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2011, 10:30:56 PM »
Installing kcm_touchpad (not kcm-touchpad) and adjusting some settings has solved my problem on my Asus Eee PC 900A.
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