[Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

George Farris farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca
Tue Oct 7 19:52:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:09 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 07.10.2008, 10:25 -0700 schrieb George Farris:
> > Shouldn't we have this type of thing in the touchpad settings and I
> > would think it should be enabled by default.
> thats pretty irrelevant now that hal manages all input devices and you
> dont need to muck about with xorg.conf at all anymore so the dangerous
> "SHMConfig" "on" isnt needed anymore ... 
> 
> hal-set-property should be all you need ...
> 

So ummm how does one use hal-set-property to turn the mousepad off while
typing and turn it back on 1.5 seconds after you stop typing?







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