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things you might want to do with F8 - anyweb - 2007-11-04
* disable synaptic (if you have a laptop)
to do this as root edit this file
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and rem out the first line with Synaptics in it
Code:
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"so it looks like this
Code:
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"save the file with :wq
then restart X (ctrl_alt_backspace)
now when you are using the touchpad in firefox or whatever you'll be happy to notice that your webpages dont jump back/forward for no apparent reason (so annoying).
* change the font size !
when I installed this on a laptop with 1280x800 lcd, the font size was crisp and clear and BIG, very big compared to even F7, so I wanted to make it a bit smaller, to do so click on System, preferences, look and feel, appearance, then click on the fonts tab. I changed the values from point size 10 to 8 for all listed options, I also selected the LCD smoothing option.
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things you might want to do with F8 - glennzo - 2007-11-06
Nice!. Maybe this is why the mouse pointer just disappears while I'm happily typing away. Seems to go off to never never land. I have to find it and bring it back 'over here'. I'm going to give this a try. Pretty freakin' annoying....