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Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality


From: tomas
Subject: Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:58:16 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:06:36PM -0700, Davin Pearson wrote:
> My new computer is a laptop and from time to time my fingers brush against 
> the mouse sensor pad, causing the following window to appear:
> 
> Change Default Buffer Size
> Change Buffer Font
> Increase Text Size
> Decrease Text Size
> Reset to Default
> 
> I want to kill such pop up windows as it annoys me when I am trying to use 
> GNU Emacs to do useful work.

I'm assuming you are running on some variant of Gnu/Linux or *BSD.

Apart from other's suggestions, which seem fine, if you are using a
touchpad driven by the Synaptics driver (which seems to be pretty
common these days), there's `synclient' which allows, among other things to
switch on/off a synaptics touchpad.

I know I've seen some use it to disable the touchpad when any key
was pressed, to re-enable it . Here's a link (a program called
syndaemon does the trick):

  
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Disable_trackpad_while_typing>

So you can tune the behaviour of your touchpad (from completely off
to less obtrusive), and that'll work OS-wide, not only for Emacs
(I know, I know ;-)

regards
- -- t
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