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| Cheeto_Bales 2004-12-16, 6:22 pm |
| Weird question for all.
I have fedora core 3 on a dell C600 laptop and all seems to work fine.
What is really getting aggravating is the the touch pad when using
Firefox, or Mozilla. I do not have mouse gesture extension installed, but
when you touch the touch pad in the bottom right or left hand corner, it
seems to flip back and forth between history pages the way that mouse
gestures would do by clicking the right or left mouse button.
I have turned down the sensitivity on the pad to almost none, but it still
flips pages. If you barely move when touching the pad, it seems to act
like mouse gestures are installed and pages flip or open in another window
or tab.
Just curious if this is something built in to Firefox, or Mozilla now; or
is it just me not having a clue what im talking about? Anyone else having
this problem?
Cheeto Bales
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| Jasman 2005-01-07, 8:40 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Cheeto_Bales
Weird question for all.
I have fedora core 3 on a dell C600 laptop and all seems to work fine.
What is really getting aggravating is the the touch pad when using
Firefox, or Mozilla. I do not have mouse gesture extension installed, but
when you touch the touch pad in the bottom right or left hand corner, it
seems to flip back and forth between history pages the way that mouse
gestures would do by clicking the right or left mouse button.
I have turned down the sensitivity on the pad to almost none, but it still
flips pages. If you barely move when touching the pad, it seems to act
like mouse gestures are installed and pages flip or open in another window
or tab.
Just curious if this is something built in to Firefox, or Mozilla now; or
is it just me not having a clue what im talking about? Anyone else having
this problem?
Cheeto Bales
Yes, I have the same problem, and haven't figured out a solution. I'll try to post one if I find one. The behavior and lack of control of touchpads in Linux is one of the worst things about the OS (well, support for laptops, in general, stinks). | |
| Jasman 2005-01-07, 9:17 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Cheeto_Bales
Weird question for all.
I have fedora core 3 on a dell C600 laptop and all seems to work fine.
What is really getting aggravating is the the touch pad when using
Firefox, or Mozilla. I do not have mouse gesture extension installed, but
when you touch the touch pad in the bottom right or left hand corner, it
seems to flip back and forth between history pages the way that mouse
gestures would do by clicking the right or left mouse button.
I have turned down the sensitivity on the pad to almost none, but it still
flips pages. If you barely move when touching the pad, it seems to act
like mouse gestures are installed and pages flip or open in another window
or tab.
Just curious if this is something built in to Firefox, or Mozilla now; or
is it just me not having a clue what im talking about? Anyone else having
this problem?
Cheeto Bales
I've figured out one way of disabling this problem. Get, install, and configure the latest Synaptics driver for Linux (http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html), install either Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics, GUI control for the touchpad (http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/), and after sucessfully restarting X, disable scrolling emulation (the second tab in Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics). I just figured this out after a year of installing and uninstalling Linux distros and the Synaptics drivers and controls!
BTW, read the installation instructions carefully for the Synaptics driver. You have to edit your X config file, and if the kernel doesn't have the correct modules compiled or initialized, or if you have a conflicting mouse identifier in your bootloader, X won't restart. Backup your old X Config file and have a way to restore it in case you need to fiddle around with these things more. | |
| Jasman 2005-01-07, 9:20 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Jasman
I've figured out one way of disabling this problem. Get, install, and configure the latest Synaptics driver for Linux (http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html), install either Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics, GUI control for the touchpad (http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/), and after sucessfully restarting X, disable scrolling emulation (the second tab in Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics). I just figured this out after a year of installing and uninstalling Linux distros and the Synaptics drivers and controls!
BTW, read the installation instructions carefully for the Synaptics driver. You have to edit your X config file, and if the kernel doesn't have the correct modules compiled or initialized, or if you have a conflicting mouse identifier in your bootloader, X won't restart. Backup your old X Config file and have a way to restore it in case you need to fiddle around with these things more.
Oh, and I can tell you that with Suse 9.2, basic Synaptics support is already there, so after editing X config, X will successfully restart. I can't vouch for Fedora (never used), but all Debian distros I've used require kernel rebuilding and bootloader editing. | |
| solusrex 2005-01-09, 2:56 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Jasman
Oh, and I can tell you that with Suse 9.2, basic Synaptics support is already there, so after editing X config, X will successfully restart. I can't vouch for Fedora (never used), but all Debian distros I've used require kernel rebuilding and bootloader editing.
Good news everybody!!!!
Found the solution and it works for me, I've stopped pulling my hair out at long last:
In Firefox, type about :config into the address bar and hit return. This gives you a list of all possible configuration options. The ones we want are those that start with mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey. Make the following changes by double-clicking the appropriate option in the list:
* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true | |
| solusrex 2005-01-09, 2:58 pm |
| or if you want an easy way see below... | |
| Mincemeat 2005-02-02, 2:11 am |
| I've been having a similar problem with Firefox on FC3 as well. Thankfully, this thread made me experiment with my touchpad tapping behaviour.
My HP Pavilion ze4200 also uses a Synaptics touchpad with the scroll bar and if I were to inadvertently tap the upper right corner between the navigation surface and the scroll bar, the browser would suddenly change to some page almost seemingly at random. Continual tapping in the exact same spot would change the page to another page so it would seem that it's loading a link from somewhere in the page. Interestingly enough, this forum page sent me to H.R. Block. On /. it would send me to mygroup.uk.
Here's the fix for that:
In the browser address bar type:
about:config
Look for the entry:
middlemouse.ContentLoadURL
This value must be set as false, so right click on it and select toggle.
Done. | |
| Mincemeat 2005-02-04, 12:46 am |
| Here's another one that I noticed...
If I were to tap in the lower right corner and drag to the left the browser would navigate back two pages.
Here's the fix:
In the Firefox address bar type:
about:config
find the entry that says:
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action
By default, it is 2. Right click the entry and select Modify,
change the entry to 0
Have fun. | |
| bweissman 2005-02-20, 7:23 pm |
| Sorry if this is off-topic, but I've looked all over the place and can't find any help. I'm using an HP Pavilion ze1230 laptop on Windows XP with the Synaptics touchpad driver. Firefox is the only application which does not recognize the "mouse wheel" vertical scrolling area of the touchpad. I've tried messing with various about:config settings, but nothing works. Anybody know a fix for this? | |
| Mincemeat 2005-02-24, 8:51 pm |
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Originally posted by bweissman
Sorry if this is off-topic, but I've looked all over the place and can't find any help. I'm using an HP Pavilion ze1230 laptop on Windows XP with the Synaptics touchpad driver. Firefox is the only application which does not recognize the "mouse wheel" vertical scrolling area of the touchpad. I've tried messing with various about :config settings, but nothing works. Anybody know a fix for this?
Slightly off topic, considering that we're not even talking about the same operating system and I feel sorry for you ;) However...
Hmmm....that's odd. Before I installed FC3 on my laptop I was using XP Home. I didn't have any problems with the scroll wheel in Firefox with the default settings. One thing I do miss about Windows and the scrollpad is that when I tapped and flicked my finger up or down on the scrollpad in Windows it would rapidly scroll to the top or bottom of the document and only stop at the top or bottom unless I interrupted it by tapping on the scrollpad.
The only thing I can suggest it check HP's site and get the latest drivers. However, if you have the most recent drivers, try rolling back the driver to the original driver. Some drivers that come down through HP and Windows Update aren't the best and break functionality, especially the ones from Windows Update.
Good luck. | |
| bweissman 2005-02-25, 4:06 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Mincemeat
Slightly off topic, considering that we're not even talking about the same operating system and I feel sorry for you ;)
Thanks for being kind to a clueless newbie. After tearing my hair out trying every kind of configuration tweak, I took your advice and rolled back the touchpad driver. Actually, I let XP roll it all the way back to a generic mouse driver. The "advanced" features are gone, but Firefox scrolls! I know, it's too much to ask for everything to work at the same time... sigh... Thanks again. |
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