Subject: Re: sticky mouse...
From: frame (frame@deadprotocol.org)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 14:57:21 MDT
I'd like to thank Jim and Ben here for their help. I wasn't aware of this
feature, but now I at least know how to cancel out the grabs, Thanks!
Greg
Ben Beachy wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Have you reviewed previous threads about "Switching off 'click' on a
> PowerBook G3 trackpad" and "gnome freezes"? It sounds to me like you've
> run into one of the more annoying attributes of the trackpad under YDL.
> By default (at least in 1.0, I thought it was fixed in 1.1) the trackpad
> is set to capture clicks and double-click drags as mouse events. It's
> really easy to touch the trackpad and "click" without meaning to and
> lock up your system.
>
> 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 you up.
>
> Ben.
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