Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-15 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, Unfortunate that no one seems to know how to disable my touch pad with Fedora. I resorted to hardware patching, literally: I cut a piece of corrugated cardboard and taped it over the touch pad. It looks funny, but at least I can now use my laptop without having to correct the effe

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-13 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello Rick, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/11/2011 10:27 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>      Hello, >> >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>> Â I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even >>> offers a driver

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/11/2011 02:16 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote: > Rick, > > My name is Darlene Wallach. > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >>> Hello Oliver, >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker >> wrote: I got a new De

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-11 Thread Darlene Wallach
Rick, My name is Darlene Wallach. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > > Hello Oliver, > > > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker > wrote: > >> I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a > >> fresh

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/11/2011 10:27 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> Â I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even >> offers a driver for that for Ubuntu, as a gzipped tarball. I suppose >> all I need is a MutliT

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-11 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >  I now found that apparently, I have a MultiTouch touchpad. Dell even > offers a driver for that for Ubuntu, as a gzipped tarball. I suppose > all I need is a MutliTouch driver for F15. I already found one for > F13, but it c

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-09 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/09/2011 04:40 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>      Hello, >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: Hello Oliver, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Ol

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-09 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/09/2011 04:40 PM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >>> Hello Oliver, >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touc

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-09 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Hello Oliver, >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >>> I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a >>> fresh F15-XFCE. The computer is diff

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-09 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hello Oliver, > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a >> fresh F15-XFCE. The computer is difficult to use, because it is almost >> impossible to

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-07 Thread Rick Stevens
On 11/07/2011 03:32 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hello Oliver, > > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: >> I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a >> fresh F15-XFCE. The computer is difficult to use, because it is almost >> impossible to type anything withou

Re: Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-07 Thread suvayu ali
Hello Oliver, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:45, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a > fresh F15-XFCE. The computer is difficult to use, because it is almost > impossible to type anything without touching the touchpad, and the > slightest touch

Disabling touchpad on Dell Latitude with XFCE

2011-11-07 Thread Oliver Ruebenacker
Hello, I got a new Dell Latitude laptop with a touchpad and installed a fresh F15-XFCE. The computer is difficult to use, because it is almost impossible to type anything without touching the touchpad, and the slightest touch will result in a unwanted and sometimes disastrous mouse click (i