Have you managed to solve this problem?
I have the same trouble,
synclient always says that it
“Can’t access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?”,
In xorg.conf
SHMconfig is set to “on”,
I also added
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
to /etc/fstab, but nothing helps:(
there’s already a solution: touchfreeze, just install from Packman repo, start a first time, and you’re done. Using it right now on my laptop, wearing a wide sleeved sweater…
I’ve finally managed to run the synclient/syndaemon.
Touchfreeze as I understood is just a QT frontend for theese programs.
The solution was Yast > Hardware > Mouse > check “Enable this pointer” for the ALPS touchpad tab. Some time ago I played with theese settings and unchecked it.
But I still don`t understand why the touchpad did work with this checkbox unchecked! Us it a bug or it should be so?
Touchfreeze seems exactly what need and I have it but often I want to freeze the touchpad when I don’t have another mouse plugged in, and then it is a process of moving the mouse with arrow keys to un-freeze it again. Not quick.
I feel I may be missing something simple here but I can’t find it. Any chance a keyboard shortcut that freezes/unfreezes the touchpad? Or better idea?
I’m a newbie. Looks like a line for the terminal to me, I could do that but what will it do? Works with touchfreeze or seperate utility? How will I use it?
Yes, it’s comandline and works with Synaptics devices. In a shell “synclient TouchpadOff=1” will disable your touchpad and “synclient TouchpadOff=0” will enable it again. I don’t know Touchfreeze.