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Title: Disable the touchpad on a laptop while typing
Post by: PackRat on July 23, 2013, 07:42:25 PM
syndaemon

Came across this little app today. I'm sure some of you are on laptops, and one thing that drives me nuts it that the mouse cursor will move as your palm or heel of your hand gets a little too close while typing. This little app takes care of that. It can be run as a daemon so add -

syndaemon -d

to your ~/.fluxbox/startup - or whatever startup file you use.

The result is that the touchpad is disabled when the keyboard is in use. By default, the touchpad will become active 2 seconds after keyboard activity stops. That can be chnaged -

syndaemon -i 1.0 -d

will cause the touchpad to become active after 1 second. There are some other options detailed in the man page. Worked like a charm when I tested it with geany and thunderbird.
Title: Re: Disable the touchpad on a laptop while typing
Post by: jedi on July 23, 2013, 08:07:59 PM
Thanks a bunch PackRat!  I have a very sensitive touchpad on my Asus G55 laptop and this is a very frustrating issue.  (or was!)  Thanks for the fix/solution.
Title: Re: Disable the touchpad on a laptop while typing
Post by: sqlpython on July 24, 2013, 01:59:13 PM
Yes, good solution, @Packrate

I had posted the same on #! a few months back with an add on.
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=26254 (http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=26254)

  In that thread I have some brief instructions as to automating the action on Boot into OpenBox.
Hope that is of help to someone.
Title: Re: Disable the touchpad on a laptop while typing
Post by: cobaltwolfe on September 07, 2013, 03:52:40 AM
This is amazing! I'm running a little Dell D430 and constantly have issues with hitting the touch pad. Big props for this.