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This is beginning to sound rather easy to implement: have a little
listener process monitoring keyboard activity.. whenever a key is
pressed, the touchpad is automatically set "off" for say 500-600ms,
after which it is set "on" again. No need to fiddle with drivers,
key-combos... User must be able to set delay, with delay=0 meaning
touchpad permanently off.<br>
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Any takers?<br>
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Basil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/06/2016 11:35 PM, Mark F wrote:<br>
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<div>On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Mark F <span dir="ltr"><<a
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> <span style="font-size:12.8px">I use Windows-key +
Space-key. I don't recall hitting it by accident. </span>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Upon further reflection, that could be
because I don't make use of any keyboard shortcuts on a
regular basis. Maybe if I were in the habit of hitting various
key combos I could empathize with Aere's caution.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">But, it seems like that would happen
with any keyboard shortcut. I've been using ctrl+alt+f1 to
bring up a console (then ctrl+alt+fn+f7) to go back to the
desktop (a workaround for the mouse cursor disappearing after
locking/unlocking the screen). If I accidentally hit that, I
would know how to undo it. </div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I can see how, if someone didn't know
of the shortcut they could cause Aere's situation to arise.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">But, It's possible I could hit a
different key (in the scenario I described above) and get
something I wouldn't know how to get out of. It's not like the
touchpad scenario doesn't already exist(?) in other ways.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">A solution would be if the on/off
toggle were a GUI under menu-settings, and the shortcut could
be enabled/disabled there? Then the user would have a
reasonable expectation of knowing about the shortcut if
someday they accidentally toggled the touchpad.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">About the documentation of keyboard
shortcuts, I often wish Lubuntu had a "Welcome" screen after
installation, like Mint does. Things like keyboard shortcuts
could fit there. I'm sure experienced users think that would
be lame. But, the way Windows is becoming controversial with
its users, it seems to me like it would be good to have the
basics presented to new users. It's not that bad to check
"Don't show me again."</div>
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