Netbook with Kubuntu 11.04: how best to tame an, uncontrollably jumping cursor? (Bas G. Roufs )

[O. Sinclair]

On 24/02/12 08:17, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 23/02/12 23:05, Carlo Vanini wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Bruce Marshall<bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 23, 2012 05:45:52 PM Brian Wootton wrote:
>>>>> My question for now is: can someone recommend me any other measure
>>>>> with
>>>>> a view to taming:-) the jumping cursor? Any thoughts?
>>>>> Thanks for replying, respectfully yours,
>>>>> Bas.
>>>
>>> Try using gpointing-device-settings which you may have to start from a
>>> command line. But it brings up a gui that will let you turn off
>>> tapping and
>>> scrolling on the touchpad and possibly set the sensitivity of the
>>> touchpad.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You may also want to try synaptiks (in the kde-config-touchpad
>> package), which allows you to configure the touchpad to be disabled
>> when keyboard activity is detected and turned back on after a
>> configurable delay.
>>
>
> I do not see that setting? A lot of other settings but not that one -
> and I would really love to have that
>

to answer my own question and do I feel stupid or what. Not that it is 
very "logical" if you ask me.

in KDE menu Utilities you will find Synaptiks, not only in System 
Settings. Start that and a tray app appears where you in "configuration" 
can find the elusive setting "automatically switch off if keyboard 
activity is detected".

And I thought I had looked everywhere.. truth to be told I do not get 
why this is NOT in the kcm module but OK - now I found it. Finally.

Best
Sinclair