controlling touchpad in hardy?

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
>> O. Sinclair said the following at 06/30/2008 03:19 AM :
>>
>>> Touchfreeze did not make me much happier and I really miss KSynaptic. 
>>> But after googling and searching around forever I found that adding this 
>>> line
>>> 	Option		"MaxTapTime" 		"2"
>>> to the Synaptic Touchpad section of xorg.conf (/etc/X11) disables the 
>>> tapping totally and I then use the pad-buttons instead for clicking. 
>>> Peace at last!
>> Brilliant! Thanks so much for posting this. I'll try this later today.
>>
>> Frankly, I don't understand how Canonical could have released hardy without
>> some obvious way to control this. Sure, the laptop is usable, but it's
>> usable in the same intensely frustrating way that it would be usable if it
>> were running Windows. In other words: it works, but it's anything but a
>> pleasure to use.
>>
> 
> Apparently KSynaptics and QSynaptics access some sort of "shared memory" 
> between users that is seen as a security risk and disabled in Hardy. I 
> managed to install Ksynaptics but even though I put the correct option 
> for shared memory "On" in xorg.conf I just got the message that shared 
> memory is not enabled whenever I tried to run KSynaptics.
> 
> GSynaptics is different then? Maybe worth a try
> 
Weird, GSynaptics seems to work though one first has to enable said 
"shared memory". K/Q does not, I think because of a dependency - I guess 
that explains why they are not in the repos. Will try out GSynaptics 
then and see if it is better than the "no tap click" trick.

Sinclair