Archive for June, 2006

Ubuntu touchpad annoyance

After more than six months of dealing with the Synaptics touchpad driver interpreting my hand brushing against the pad as a “click”, I found a small change to xorg.conf which will take away the sting of using a touchpad with Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

Simply add the following lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the InputDevice clause for the touchpad, and restart X:

Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

Just had to share that, it took me so long to get up the resolve to actually *look* for a solution …

Moving on, moving on up?

Well, after many years of living in podunk cowville, I’ve moved back into a slightly more suburban area, complete with ridiculous historic figures. It’s a bit easier not having to deal with annoying power outages and other awful inconveniences. And now I don’t have to worry about my mailbox getting nailed by that plow driver who always seems to target it. Hooray for the benefits of modern civilization!

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