[dundee] Fwd: [ubuntu-uk] Disable touchpad while typing

[Huntly Cameron]

On some of the Acer laptops (possibly limited to the Travel Mate
series) there is a function button to do it (Fn + F7). I only found
that out last week and I've had the laptop for about a year now!  Its
really handy cause I always end up messing up documents and stuff with
the touch pad enabled :-)

Cheers

Huntly Cameron
e: huntly.cameron at gmail.com



2009/4/25 azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com>:
> this is a great trick for laptops and netbooks.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>
> Date: 2009/4/24
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Disable touchpad while typing
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I thought this might be useful to some of you out there who use laptops.
>
> http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/03/howto-disable-touchpad-while-typing.html
>
> Basically it it is instructions on how to disable the touchpad while
> typing and how to tweak the settings of the touchpad.  The touchpad
> being enabled while I type is one of the biggest things that annoys me
> about my laptop, it just seems over sensitive that if I even look at the
> touchpad it seems to click.  Anyway following this guide has finally
> fixed this for me.  I can now type away to my hearts content without
> having to worry about the cursor suddenly being clicked away.
>
> By the way, if it helps, it mentions shmconfig.fdi and links to another
> site, the contents of the file are below...
>
> Rob
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
>
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