2 sec delay after typing in Gnome 3. Who came up with that idea?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 12 april 2012 00:30 skrev Christian <cdysthe at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:05:44 -0500, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Den 11 april 2012 23:47 skrev Christian <cdysthe at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've really like Gnome Shell and it has gradually become my default DE.
>>> But
>>> on my laptop there's a really annoying change from Gnome 2: When you set
>>> "Disable touchpad while typing" there's a 2 seconds(!) delay before you
>>> can
>>> type again. In Gnome 2 I think it was 20 ms. Initially I was sure there
>>> had
>>> to be a setting, maybe hidden in dconf or something, for this. But I can
>>> not
>>> find it. Since the touchpad on my two laptops both are really touchy (pun
>>> intended) so that even typing fast makes the cursor jump around, this
>>> setting is important to me. Without it I can not work efficiently on the
>>> laptops. The whole reason for this setting was in the first place that
>>> most
>>> laptops with touchpads have this problem.
>>>
>>> After a lot of digging around I've found that this 2 seconds delay seems
>>> to
>>> be hardcoded into Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. Only through a recompile will I be
>>> able to set this to a reasonable value it looks like. But I have found a
>>> workaround using syndaemon which I load on login with appropriate values.
>>> This works well as far as the delay goes, but it seems like syndaemon
>>> makes
>>> other settings for the touchpad less accurate and hard to set. My
>>> question
>>> is if anyone can think of another solution to this problem, or happen to
>>> know if there after all is some other way to set this delay in Gnome
>>> 3/Gnome
>>> Shell that I haven't been able to find.
>>>
>>> And of course, I would like to know who came up with the great idea to
>>> change this default in Gnome 3! My theory is that it's a typo, it should
>>> have been 20 ms, but ended up being 2 seconds! :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> //Christian
>>
>>
>> File a bug report, maybe?
>
>
> Not sure it's a bug though. I will look into doing that anyway :)

You wrote ”My theory is that it's a typo”, and I thought you might be
right. No one else has replied here, so we will probably never know if
it is a bug or not, unless someone report it as a but. But do a search
first, in case someone already reported it.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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>> Kind regards
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>> Johnny Rosenberg
>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
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> --
> //Christian