{"id":27,"date":"2006-08-04T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/2006\/08\/04\/fixing-an-alps-touchpad-in-ubuntu-li"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:14:11","slug":"fixing-an-alps-touchpad-in-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/2006\/08\/04\/fixing-an-alps-touchpad-in-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing an Alps Touchpad in Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For no good reason, I have been playing around with Ubuntu Linux lately.  I have setup my Dell Inspiron 600m as a dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux machine.  I am currently running the Dapper Drake distribution of Ubuntu Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The behavior of my laptop&#8217;s touchpad made using linux very frustrating.  I spent several hours today trying to disable the tapping feature (tap-to-click) of my touchpad until I finally found this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=76585\">thread<\/a> which provides excellent instructions on how to fix the touchpad.  Follow William Szostak&#8217;s 2nd posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no good reason, I have been playing around with Ubuntu Linux lately. I have setup my Dell Inspiron 600m as a dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux machine. I am currently running the Dapper Drake distribution of Ubuntu Linux. The behavior of my laptop&#8217;s touchpad made using linux very frustrating. I spent several hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scaldwel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}