Hi,
If you want to alter the functions of your laptop's Synaptics touchpad, download and install the package gsynaptics from the repositories. The first time you try to run it, it will complain that you need to add the option SHMConfig "true" to the synaptics section of xorg.conf. Do this. You will then be able to configure things like scrolling, tapping and so on. I used it to disable tapping since my touchpad was always picking up unintentional taps when I typed and putting my insertion point in weird places.
Hope this helps some of you!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2011 07:54PM by anu.