>> Gah. I *hate* that! I wish I knew how to disable that on my Linux 
>> laptop... You go to make a big mouse movement, which involves lifting 
>> your fingers off the glide pad and putting them down again several 
>> times, and each time you do you end up randomly clicking something on 
>> the screen. GRRR!
> 
> You must be joking! This sort of behaviour is what makes laptops usable 
> without a mouse.

On the contrary - this is the number #2 reason for me always plugging a 
mouse in. (#1 is that, obviously, a glide pad is, what, 2 inches square?)

> Anyway, it's easy to avoid your problem on the Mac 
> because the pointer speed varies non-linearly with finger speed.

Ah-hah! Another thing I really hate... Makes it easy to move the pointer 
half way across the screen, but almost impossible to aim at a 1-pixel dot.

> Having seen the wealth of desktop settings in e.g. SUSE, I'd be very 
> surprised if you couldn't set all this and more on your machine.

Well, under Windoze the device driver for the glide pad lets you change 
it. I had assumed it's a software thing, but under SUSE the glide pad 
seems to malfunction in exactly the same way, so it must be hardware...

> The other thing I like is scrolling the currently active window by 
> moving two fingers on the touchpad instead of one.

Ah, yet another thing I really hate about using the glide pad. "Oh, I 
accidentally touched the pad slightly too far to the side, now it thinks 
I want to *scroll* this window rather than point at the one behind it". >_<

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