xserver-xorg.synaptics question

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:16:50PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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? :(

X doesn't touch that directory other than to read the config files.
if that directory disappears on reboot, I suspect there are other setup
issues that you need to sort out first.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
> 
> Thanks Peter.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett