Re: MBP17 touchpad/synaptics settings/sensitivity

have you tried using syndaemon. 
I havent used it i just read the man page:

syndaemon(1)                                                      syndaemon(1)

NAME
       syndaemon  - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the
       touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

SYNTAX
       syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-d] [-p pid-file] [-t] [-k] [-K]

DESCRIPTION
       Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted  movements  of  the
       pointer that could lead to giving focus to the wrong window.  This pro-
       gram needs SHMConfig "on" in your XOrg/XFree86 Synaptics Touchpad  con-
       figuration.
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On 18/08/06, Will Parker <stardotstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How enlightening!  Thank you very much.  I patched the source and found
that it is incompatible with the Synaptics setup (and synclient reported
very different values) and I couldn't get syaptics to work properly.
After commenting it out the appletouch response in native mode is *much*
improved.  The sensitivity is right up there with the IBM and Mactel in
OSX however it is still darting to the pointer quite randomly without
getting any touchpad input - unless it is to do with my palms reasting on
the Mac's chassis near the touchpad ??!.  I had to reboot and comment out
my synaptics setup to get back to the appletouch manager but now it seems
to be very good resolution just not accelerated or with additional button
support.

Hmmm, must be a way to get the resolution passed successfully to synaptics
no?

Will


> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:47:58PM +1000, thus spake Will Parker:
>> 3) the acceleration is not great and I have it set very high but I find
>> that it is not proportional horizontal vs vertical - I can sweep across
>> the screen left to right in one or (sometimes) two strokes but vertical
>> requires several motions and this seems wrong - I expect to be able to
>> traverse the widescreen proportionally and since I like high sensitivity
>> and high accel I am wondering if the trackpad will be a limitation in
>> itself.
>
> I found the appletouch support in terms of acceleration pretty bad, the
> first
> time I tried it.  Then I fiddled a bit with the source code and came up
> with
> the attached patch.  It seems that the resolution settings were initially
> worked out for powerbooks, which have a smaller touchpad area.
>
> This works great for me, so maybe you should try it out and why not
> include it
> in the patch set on the repository.
>
> --
> I used to have a sig, but I've stopped smoking now.
>



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