How to enable SHMconfig?

Question

How to enable SHMconfig on Ubuntu 11.04? I'm trying to change touchpad's configuration on run-time, but can't because it needs for SHMconfig to be enabled, how can I do that?

Answer 1

I think you can add Option "SHMConfig" "true to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf which may look like this:

Section "InputClass"
     Identifier "touchpad catchall"
     Driver "synaptics"
     MatchIsTouchpad "on"
     MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
           Option "TapButton1" "1"
           Option "TapButton2" "2"
           Option "TapButton3" "3"
           Option "SHMConfig"  "true"
EndSection

Or temporarily you can do synclient SHMConfig=1 in terminal to check the behaviour you want.

Answer 2

Is this for the synaptics driver?

It's been a while since I've needed this as I don't have a laptop that requires it, but under previous versions you could do this with a HAL policy:

First, create the file

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-synaptics-options.fdi

with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
     <match key="input.x11_driver" contains="synaptics">
         <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
         <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">0</merge>
       </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

(I've added MaxTapTime=0 to turn off tap-to-click)

Restart the haldaemon, then restart X11.

After that, gsynaptics should be able to communicate via SHMConfig.