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    Sensitive Touch pad?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Wellsley, Nov 5, 2007.

  1. Wellsley

    Wellsley Notebook Enthusiast

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    Okay, so this may just be nitpicking, but occasionally while typing my left hand will brush near the touch pad and I wind up typing somewhere in a document that I don't want to be typing in. Now, on my old lappy, I could turn off the touch pad but even there this wasn't really a problem.

    Anyway, I've tried tweaking the Dell branded Synaptic settings but I couldn't find anything that worked like I want. So, I kinda want to use the right mouse click button on they keyboard (next to the arrow keys) to turn it off when I don't want it. Any ideas? I tried keytweak, but it didn't have any options for disabling the touch pad or anything clever like that.

    And secondly, and ideas on how I can get past the simple Synaptic-Dell branded frontend to get to the good touch pad settings? Am I going to have to go get the "Real" Synaptic software?

    Cheers.
     
    Wellsley, Nov 5, 2007
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    Happens to alot people may i suggest useing the hot key to disable the touchpad when type it seem work for most

    works great if you useing diffent mouse too
     
    andyasselin, Nov 5, 2007
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  3. Wellsley

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    There's a hot key? That's basically what I asked for, lol. What is it?
     
    Wellsley, Nov 5, 2007
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    how do you do that?
     
    gridtalker, Nov 5, 2007
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  5. wiruzik

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    Yeah, where is it? :D I have the same problem..
     
    wiruzik, Nov 6, 2007
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    I have had the exact same problem with the 1400. At 1st i thought it was a software problem but when i tried typing with my hand away from the touchpad, the problem stopped so I guess the touchpad is the problem.
     
    manzi, Nov 6, 2007
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    wiruzik, Nov 7, 2007
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