From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dale Snell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:55:12 -0700 Organization: Department of redundant redundancies and tautological pleonasms department Message-ID: <20160322235512.6c7415e3@zothique.localdomain> References: Reply-To: ddsnell@frontier.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/bGRTZsVEBAeVNDVt8p2VkVQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458716180 392 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2016 06:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:56:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 07:56:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aici5-0008Ij-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:56:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aici4-0006YC-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:56:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aicht-0006Xu-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aichp-0003ak-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:55:52 -0400 Original-Received: from filter01.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.183.226]:47633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aichp-0003aO-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:55:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filter01.roch.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F3A104AB8; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from relay02.roch.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.165]) by localhost (filter01.roch.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.226]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HMvDmI4p9AXb; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:55:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Originating-IP: [50.38.115.166] X-Previous-IP: 50.38.115.166 Original-Received: from zothique.localdomain (unknown [50.38.115.166]) by relay02.roch.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B80A519C87; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:55:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 66.133.183.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109659 Archived-At: --Sig_/bGRTZsVEBAeVNDVt8p2VkVQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:06:36 -0700 (PDT), in message cffc8040-b5aa-4c96-97b2-ab5729d1e6cf@googlegroups.com, 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: >=20 > Change Default Buffer Size > Change Buffer Font > Increase Text Size > Decrease Text Size > Reset to Default >=20 > I want to kill such pop up windows as it annoys me when I am trying > to use GNU Emacs to do useful work. >=20 > Does anyone know how to go about disabling the mouse sensor pad, > given that I have purchased an old fashioned mouse for GUI work. Hi Davin, Your best bet is probably to boot into your laptop's BIOS and turn off the trackpad from there. That's what I had to do with my old IBM Thinkpad. Hope this helps. --Dale --=20 "Shambling, drooling, bent on destruction and biting people's heads off... it's either zombies or upper management." -- Ebenezer Dusk, Esquire --Sig_/bGRTZsVEBAeVNDVt8p2VkVQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW8j3QAAoJEB7OMKhvWRr8hmMH/jve/qSf5To0V0jCjv99A7TC 1UHpvA+uWmhsONUpPd32si9t+DQvUdYbarjUyMa2VdbVKAe/hGl88MagK+9kqusO SL6jeNnF6JH4e2iRXTWuBiwy6rBlmaJmJo5YFJtY0I6+xpWz5CjDcC+L4eM9E3Wq 4epwGwttbYkjgSzgW5zOUIyOQTt3KuG/7JQ1Bcc+gy4c7kbcQLo73BYFX2gT+Qh2 NnZjfEilgo5jJPuQN0/pc/4tQ0vokjAqvbC+6HTGm0gPqIPeihqX7yIwbz9xR+fx T5/6oRLVwGRxfT4vZcywSEaBZlePQXoSLa7AEmtfy5SN8wd5UpOO/D2IzslDLOU= =XJks -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/bGRTZsVEBAeVNDVt8p2VkVQ--