switch off auto-selection of text (or what ever it is called ..)

[Colin Law]

On 27 December 2017 at 10:01, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 27 December 2017 at 20:47, robert <robert at redcor.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On 27.12.2017 05:22, Owen Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> ... and to Robert once more...
>>>
>>> I don't actually know, but here might be some settings in synclient that
>>> might be of some help to you too.
>>>
>> did not know synclient
>>
>
> Neither did I until just now. It looks like the hardware can disable the
> things that confound you and I, but alas, Ubuntu has yet to embrace them.
>

In 17.10 the touchpad settings have an option to disable the touchpad
whilst typing.  In fact I am pretty sure that has been there long time.

Colin
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