[Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Il giorno gio, 09/10/2008 alle 16.16 +1100, William Grant ha scritto:

> hal-set-property isn't very useful here, but xinput can be used to
> change things without SHMConfig. While travelling this morning I added
> input device property support to syndaemon -- it turned out to be a
> rather larger job than I expected, but AFAICS it is fine.
> 
> Install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from my PPA
> (https://launchpad.net/~wgrant/+archive) to get this version. With it
> installed, syndaemon should be usable without manual device
> configuration. Please complain about anything that's broken with it.
> 

I tried this and it works well. I think that "syndaemon -t -i 1.0"
should be added to the default session. This only disables tapping and
scrolling for one second when you are typing, and the "-t" switch avoids
that alt+click gets disabled which would be annoying.

Thanks a lot in any case

Vincenzo