Re: WSJ: Mossberg takes the Linux bait and snarls ....
- From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:55:33 -0500
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:29 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 14 September 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:06:51 -0400
"Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree 100% with one of his beefs. Laptop touchpad sensitivity.
When I'm
typing (and as I touch-type around 50 wpm, the keyboard is really a
humming)
often the cursor will jump to where the i-beam for the mouse is;
ooops, left
click. But I didn't touch the touchpad. Aggravating as all get
out. (And
if someone knows a way to turn that down, please let me know, as
I've not run
across the setting yet).
It seems to me that Mossberg has identified a terrific business
oportunity. Someone for $50-$100 will configure all the things he feels
currently are obscure to configure. It only has to be configured once
and then mass copied.
This complaint has been the order of the day for the synaptics touchpad used
in a lot of lappies. And it is one reason I run a little gizmo called
synaptics that shuts it off, and I use a pluggin wireless mouse instead.
Fusses about it here, or on the lkml, are either ignored or teased about cuz I
supposedly can't type.
Of course I can't type when my thumbs must be pulled back against the wrist
and taped in place with several turns of duct tape. That of course makes it
difficult to hit the spacebarsomywordscomeoutalljumbledtogether. Strangely,
I don't have to be near as carefull on those rare occasions when I have it
running XP.
I've asked politely, and I've asked obnoxiously, the same question:
When is the touchpad going to be fixed?
I'm a mostly retired broadcast engineer, the type that makes the high powered
transmitters you watch tv from work. I deal routinely with high voltage
power supplies capable of sucking a megawatt+ from the powerline under fault
conditions. Its pure hell to be composing a long technical message, to
people who just barely understand that turning on a light is done by making
metal to metal contact in the light switch, only to have half of it
highlighted by one misscue of that POS, and erased by the next keystroke
because you don't see it quickly enough when working from and reading notes,
nor can you stop typing that fast. More than one of my messages, or a record
file of what I'm doing has been converted into total gibberish by such
actions in 50 milliseconds.
Ois what I did when I have to tr it can also cause a switch screens, any way to screw up what you are doing,
it WILL find a way to do it. Seriously folks, the touchpad needs fixed. If
winblow$ can do it, why can't linux?
Another obvious solution is to buy a usb keyboard so your hands will be nowhere near
the touch pad. That what I did to use when I need to type long documents.
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