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Is There a Better Mouse Program for Ubuntu 7.10 ?

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The mouse program in Ubuntu 7.10 is kind of limiting. Is there a program I can download that is more powerful and has more features than the one that comes in Ubuntu by default?

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Markus Thielmann (thielmann) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question.

You might want to specify what "powerful" means. What do you want to achieve?

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taurus (taurusxz) said : 		#2

Markus, thank you for your good question. By powerful, I want to be able to specify and limit what areas of my laptop touchpad I can scroll/move my mouse. For example, in a webpage or word doc, the scroll area of my touchpad takes up more than half the area of the touchpad. When I just want to move my mouse and not scroll, I instead am stuck scrolling. I want to be able to dedicate a small area of the touchpad to scrolling.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#3

Hello Taurus

There is a program in the repos called "gsynaptics" for configuring Synaptics touchpads. (I m not sure about other models though)

More info:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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