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

[Nistur]

Hrmmm, shame this is just synaptics... my netbook has a VERY sensitive
touchpad that's very annoying but it's not a synaptics one :( it has got a
Fn button to disable it but it's not all that useful unless I'm planning on
writing a large block of text, which I normally use my PC for.

I did find a guide for doing this on a site for setting up the MSI Wind U100
with Linux that used mouseemu but it didn't work for me :(
Not too big of a problem, just thought someone may appreciate another
option.

Nistur

On Apr 25, 2009 2:32 PM, "Andrew Clayton" <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:59:50 +0100, azmodie wrote: > this is a great trick
for laptops and netbooks...
Probably worth mentioning that with Xserver 1.6 and the current
synaptics driver none of these SHM/config hacks is needed. The driver
can be configured on the fly via device properties.

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2008/10/device-properties-have-landed.html
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.html

For example for Fedora 11 in the mouse properties dialogue in GNOME,
there is a new tab for configuring your touchpad.


On a slightly related note, if people saw the HUGE C_A_BS Xserver
zapping threads. The right solution was eventually found.

http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/zapping-server.html

Personally I'm a big fan of C_A_BS (although not used so much now we
don't need xorg.conf) and don't recall ever hitting it by _mistake_.


Andrew

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