Category Archives: touchpad

“You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’…” – even though you have created shmconfig.fdi

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In previous blog entries (disabling the touchpad whilst typing and installing gsynaptics) I described how to enable SHMConfig in order to control the touchpad.

I had some feedback from at least two readers who could not enable SHMConfig, and when they tried to use gsynaptics or syndaemon, they were met with the error “You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config“. The instructions provided in the post to enable SHMConfig using the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi method did not appear to be working.

After a lot of troubleshooting work with Travis, we were able to determine why this was occuring, and how to resolve it.

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restoring the kogan agora to factory default settings and gOS

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I have just booted my agora using the kogan gOS iso, which can be found here: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s2eg5d.

I used unetbootin to create a bootable USB drive, and it booted to an Ubuntu/gOS boot menu fine. I didn’t want to overwrite my UNR install, so I chose to boot ‘live’ – i.e. run gOS from the USB drive, and not change my hard drive in any way.

The kogan spash screen appeared and eventually it booted to the ‘koganised’ gOS desktop, which only lasted a day the last time it was installed on my agora! What I didn’t have, semi-unexpectedly, was a functioning touchpad.

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disable the kogan agora’s touchpad whilst typing

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I have noticed that I often brush the touchpad of my agora whilst typing, and this often moves the cursor to another line in the text I am typing, or changes focus to a different window. It can be very frustrating!

Neerav Bhatt also mentioned that he was having this problem, and I flashed back to all my google searching when I was trying to enable the touchpad in Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I came across some information on how to disable the touchpad, which was completely the opposite to what I was trying to achieve. Flash forward to today, and it now seems pretty useful!

I have dug up that information, and now I have my touchpad disabled whilst I type. When I stop typing, 1 second after the last key press, the touchpad is re-enabled.

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