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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

"Disable touchpad while typing" does not work

Bug #1296180 reported by forteller on 2014-03-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1295526: "disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work. Edit Remove

This bug affects 11 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I've seen some similar bugreports, but none exactly like this. In my Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 "Disable touchpad while typing" does not work at all. I can both move the cursor and click with it while typing. But the manual way of turning off the touchpad with the Fn key works fine.

Let me know if I can do anything to help the process of tracking down and fixing this bug in any way (except coding, which I can't).

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forteller (forteller) on 2014-03-23

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-04-25:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Peter Roos (roospeteristvan) wrote on 2014-05-08:

Temporary solution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/299868/disable-touchpad-while-typing-does-not-work

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Peter Roos (roospeteristvan) wrote on 2014-05-08:

Does the Mouse settings use the syndaemon under the hood? If yes, that could be the reason of the problem, as enabling the syndaemon with the -t option results in the same state. However, using the interval value and the -d option, it works just fine.