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> From: Vladimir Mosgalin <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad
>
> Hi William Shu!
>
> On 2011.09.21 at 03:48:40 -0700, William Shu wrote next:
>
>> A) using synclient and syndaemon (partial success).
>>
>> syndaemon works all the time, but synclient only works *sometimes*.
> However, I'm not sure what I did, as my activities (below) don't seem
> repeatable/reproducible. My guess is they are being controlled/overidden from
> two or more independent sources.
>>
>> First, I reversed the order of lines in *.fdi file, though I'm not
> convinced that matters, to:
>>
>> <merge key="input.x11_driver"
> type="string">synaptics</merge>
>> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig"
> type="string">true</merge>
>
> Did you try "on", btw? I believe "true" might be deprecated.
Yes, it was "On" before I changed to "true". it does not seem to matter though. I still get intermittent responses.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't assist you on gnome interfering issues.. these
> are hard to debug and deal with. Can give another idea, though - there
> is alternative way to turning touchpad off while typing with syndaemon -
> it's to make it ignore palm touch, the synclient setting for that is
> described here
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics#Disable_Trackpad_while_Typing
> (sadly, most of this article contents is for Xorg 8 w/udev, so it won't
> work with SL6 which uses Xorg 7.4 w/hal)
>
I have just tried set PalmDetect=1, but no visible change (yet):
$ synclient PalmDetect=1
but I may just be in one of the non-responsive phase of the system!
>
>> B) gnome desktop manipulation (unsuccessful).
>> The script for gnome could not work. complained of not finding
> "/desktop/gnome/...". find could not trace it (rooted elsewhere) and
> so I abandon the approach.
>
> There won't be such file - it's gconf key (you can browse around with
> gconf-editor after installing corresponding package, for example).
> But if there is no such key, probably touchpad manipulation from isn't
> supported on SL6.. (this key exists on Fedora system, for example).
it seems the key needs a physical directory somewhere, even if it is not
literally stored there as a file or subdirectory, as the following shows:
I've traced the directory root to be "~/.gconf", viz:
/home/wss/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/
but meet handicap that gconftool-2 --set ... does not want subdirectories
starting with a period (e.g., .gconf), and the file "touchpad_enabled"
does NOT exist in it (since it's a key?).
having a soft link via:
$ ln -s /home/wss/.gconf tmpgconf
solved the first problem. Repeated running of the script made the second
problem go away. The transcript follows (script in file gnome-touchpadtoggle):
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ ./gnome-touchpadtoggle
Failed to get value for `/home/wss/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled': Bad key or directory name: "/home/wss/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled": Can't have a period '.' right after a slash '/'
Error setting value: Bad key or directory name: "/home/wss/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled": Can't have a period '.' right after a slash '/'
[wss@localhost synaptics]$
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ ./gnome-touchpadtoggle
No value set for `/home/wss/tmpgconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled'$(gconftool-2 --get "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled")
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ $(gconftool-2 --get "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled")
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ $(gconftool-2 --get "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled")
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ echo $(gconftool-2 --get "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled")
true
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ gconftool-2 --set "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled" --type boolean false
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ echo $(gconftool-2 --get "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled")
false
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ ./gnome-touchpadtoggle
[wss@localhost synaptics]$ ./gnome-touchpadtoggle
>
>>
>> Once more, thanks for the assistance.
>
> No problem, I'm glad at least some solution worked :)
>
>
> --
>
> Vladimir
>
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