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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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 t
o post one if I find one. The behavior and lack of control of touchpads in L
inux is one of the worst things about the OS (well, support for laptops, in 
general, stinks).

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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 Synapti
cs driver for Linux (http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html), install eith
er Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics, GUI control for the touchpad (http://qsynaptics.sourc
eforge.net/), and after sucessfully restarting X, disable scrolling emulatio
n (the second tab in Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics). I just figured this out afte
r a year of installing and uninstalling Linux distros and the Synaptics driv
ers 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 corr
ect modules compiled or initialized, or if you have a conflicting mouse iden
tifier in your bootloader, X won't restart. Backup your old X Config file an
d have a way to restore it in case you need to fiddle around with these thin
gs more.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jasman 
I've figured out one way of disabling this problem. Get, install, and configure the latest Synapti
cs driver for Linux (http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html), install eith
er Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics, GUI control for the touchpad (http://qsynaptics.sourc
eforge.net/), and after sucessfully restarting X, disable scrolling emulatio
n (the second tab in Qsynaptics or Ksynaptics). I just figured this out afte
r a year of installing and uninstalling Linux distros and the Synaptics driv
ers 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 r
estart. Backup your old X Config file and have a way to restore it in case you need to f
iddle around with these things more. 
 

Oh, and I can tell you that with Suse 9.2, basic Synaptics support is alread
y there, so after editing X config, X will successfully restart. I can't vou
ch for Fedora (never used), but all Debian distros I've used require kernel 
rebuilding and bootloader editing.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jasman 
[B]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 use
d), but all Debian distros I've used require kernel rebuilding and bootloader editing. [
/B]
 

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 give
s you a list of all possible configuration options. The ones we want are tho
se that start with mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey. Make the following chan
ges by double-clicking the appropriate option in the list:


    * mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0

    * mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true

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or if you want an easy way see below...

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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 navigatio
n 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 fr
om 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.

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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.

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Sorry if this is off-topic, but I've looked all over the place and can't fin
d any help. I'm using an HP Pavilion ze1230 laptop on Windows XP with the Sy
naptics touchpad driver. Firefox is the only application which does not reco
gnize 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?

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quote:
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 scr
olling 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 o
perating 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 defaul
t 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 wo
uld 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 Upd
ate aren't the best and break functionality, especially the ones from Window
s Update.

Good luck.

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