From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of horrible GUI functionality Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:08:50 +0000 Message-ID: <87wposxmxp.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458810564 32391 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2016 09:09:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Davin Pearson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 24 10:09:13 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 1aj1GS-0002gx-IG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:09:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj1GR-00041n-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj1GG-00041i-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj1GB-00021b-3L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:46245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj1GA-00021T-T8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:08:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=kTUnTXu5mvZ3J1lbDCZWMxdFPoaMw9432WRBNFA9LQ0=; b=AnzBH458YwW0QDgFaKmVBKiw4y tTq3o/Lq+KnE/6YIJ1h2FkTsdN0JnWWT0DyydtSowFtUjeAsuIERwu05kgYgG0Kxn99/U5g8awD5w 9TgGHHZWI5zXUkwTHJVdxAMBLDSjcDl5S+u1my+PIT335C+Nl1aR5Am2DloOrdTbEZR8uD+Q0k2oA Z2lvcZVLJE32pbwLfctM3iuiDq25lVyqLauxPSwHyqMbkwrIKwBIVQdIiVZmXDjCrkER41eKkinvb 7Nq6bGKP3Hw1kxUgzKeTtKbFmA4dsIiRvf/DxPc3KBTtNmxE52zQm/PzDDfYn9JhN523m1acXo52z G/cokxGA==; Original-Received: from [192.150.182.180] (port=43444 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1aj1GA-000uPj-Ds; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:08:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Davin Pearson's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:06:36 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 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:109668 Archived-At: It's better handled at OS level, if possible. Is there not a "disable track-pad when typing" option? These work seamlessly for me. Phil Davin Pearson writes: > 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: > > Change Default Buffer Size > Change Buffer Font > Increase Text Size > Decrease Text Size > Reset to Default > > I want to kill such pop up windows as it annoys me when I am trying to use GNU > Emacs to do useful work. > > Does anyone know how to go about disabling the mouse sensor pad, given that I > have purchased an old fashioned mouse for GUI work.