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Amit k. Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]
Hello all,
I have installed the Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bit) beta on my 32-bit notebook and Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit) on a friend's 64-bit laptop. I am using Acer laptops.
In both cases, using the touchpad to click (single/double-click) is pretty troublesome, and needs a rather "hard" hit on the pad. I have tried setting the mouse preferences similarly to the one on Ubuntu 7.04 (which I use), but to no avail.
Any hints?
Regards, Amit
-- Amit Kumar Saha
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:51:36PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote:
> Hello all, > > I have installed the Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bit) beta on my 32-bit notebook and > Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit) on a friend's 64-bit laptop. I am using Acer > laptops. > > In both cases, using the touchpad to click (single/double-click) is > pretty troublesome and needs a rather "hard" hit on the pad. I have > tried setting the mouse preferences similarly to the one on Ubuntu 7.04 > (which I use), but to no avail.
I had a similar problem a few years ago with an Acer. If you have a Synaptics touchpad (which mine did), you need to tweak the sensitivity setting in your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. A quick Net search comes up with:
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
Although I would stick with doing the manual config part of that. That way, you'd know what got changed. Oh, and make sure to keep a backup of the original file, just in case.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Amit k. Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]
Hi Ben,
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:51:36PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have installed the Ubuntu 8.04 (32-bit) beta on my 32-bit notebook and >> Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit) on a friend's 64-bit laptop. I am using Acer >> laptops. >> >> In both cases, using the touchpad to click (single/double-click) is >> pretty troublesome and needs a rather "hard" hit on the pad. I have >> tried setting the mouse preferences similarly to the one on Ubuntu 7.04 >> (which I use), but to no avail. > > I had a similar problem a few years ago with an Acer. If you have a > Synaptics touchpad (which mine did), you need to tweak the sensitivity > setting in your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. A quick Net search comes up with: > > http://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad > > Although I would stick with doing the manual config part of that. That > way, you'd know what got changed. Oh, and make sure to keep a backup of > the original file, just in case.
I installed 'gsynaptics' after following the above link. I am trying to tweak the sensitivity to my liking with it. Let's hope I get there.
Thanks, Amit
-- Amit Kumar Saha