xserver-xorg.synaptics question

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 27 April 2015 22:29:11 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:24:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 27 April 2015 20:17:57 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:15:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > >
> > > > Can someone tell me how to edit the
> > > > /usr/share/X11/50-synaptics.conf file, which when copied to
> > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, will disable it totally?
> > >
> > > what exactly do you want to do? ignore the device completely?
> > >
> > > Section "InputClass"
> > >    Identifier "ignore touchpads"
> > >    MatchDriver "synaptics"
> > >    Option "Ignore" "on"
> > > EndSection
> >
> > I put that into the file, then renamed it to Xorg.conf when that
> > didn't work, followed by another reboot, no difference in the
> > behaviour or the Xorg.0.log.
> >
> > Does it belong in the Xsessions.d subdir?
> >
> > And what is its correct name?
>
> put it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-ignore-synaptics.conf

I was going to, but the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory I just made,  put 
the file in there as 50-synaptics.conf before I rebooted, but it appears 
X blows that directory away during the boot.  It and the file are gone 
after the reboot.

Is it beer-thirty yet? :(

> Cheers,
>    Peter

Thanks Peter.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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