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

[Dan Bolser]

That's working great on my Hardy laptop (a gripe I never got round to
investigating), however, since we're fixing things... I recently
started to notice a problem with my touchpads vertical scrolling
function (which I love). The problem is that the vertical scroll
region of the touch pad extends well beyond the physically defined
region of the touch pad on the right.

To be clear my touch pad is is about 7cm wide, and there is a small
vertical ridge at 6cm to demark the 'scrollie button' region. However,
this feature is active from about the 5th cm along the touchpad. I
find this really annoying, as I'm just about to move the mouse to
click, all of a sudden the point I was aiming for is leaping up or
down the screen (keeping my left hand on the kbd and 'reaching for the
mouse' with my right hand naturally puts my finger on the right side
of the touch pad).

How can I configure the region of the touchpad responsible for
horizontal scrolling? (to make it smaller).


Cheers,
Dan.

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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