Subject: Re: gnome freezes
From: Harold Bolton (bolton@asl.cr.usgs.gov)
Date: Mon Aug 30 1999 - 07:41:08 MDT
Ben,
You are exactly correct. It was my mouse pad caught between taps. Thanks for the
good info. I would have never figured that out.
cheers,
-harold
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> Harold,
>
> > The behavior is as if the left mouse button remains depressed. I know that
my
> > mouse pad is not guilty because this behavior isn't apparent in the Mac OS.
>
> How sure are you the problem's not with the mouse pad (which I assume is a
> trackpad)? I thought I had a similar problem and it turned out to be related
> to the trackpad's default setting in YDL 1.1 -- a setting that causes it to
> react to trackpad taps as if they're mouse clicks. Of coursetrackpads are
> insanley sensitive and you can lock up YDL waiting for a mouseup even that
> never comes.
>
> Fortunately the solution is simple:
>
> Get a program called trackpad from
>
> http://xenu.phys.uit.no/~alvin/linux/trackpad_tool.tar.gz
>
> compile it with: egcs -o trackpad trackpad.c
> chown root.root trackpad and move it to /usr/bin
>
> Then in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local add a line like:
>
> /usr/bin/trackpad notap
>
> (shamelessly stolen from previous mail list messages : )
>
> Hope that fixes the problem for ya'
>
> Ben.
>
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