this is a great trick for laptops and netbooks. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Beard</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: 2009/4/24<br>Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Disable touchpad while typing<br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><br><br>Hi folks,<br>
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I thought this might be useful to some of you out there who use laptops.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/03/howto-disable-touchpad-while-typing.html" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/03/howto-disable-touchpad-while-typing.html</a><br>
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Basically it it is instructions on how to disable the touchpad while<br>
typing and how to tweak the settings of the touchpad. The touchpad<br>
being enabled while I type is one of the biggest things that annoys me<br>
about my laptop, it just seems over sensitive that if I even look at the<br>
touchpad it seems to click. Anyway following this guide has finally<br>
fixed this for me. I can now type away to my hearts content without<br>
having to worry about the cursor suddenly being clicked away.<br>
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By the way, if it helps, it mentions shmconfig.fdi and links to another<br>
site, the contents of the file are below...<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><br>
<deviceinfo version="0.2"><br>
<device><br>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics"><br>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge><br>
</match><br>
</device><br>
</deviceinfo><br>
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