"Disable touchpad while typing" should ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-settings-daemon (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-
The "Disable touchpad while typing" option is useful to avoid accidental touchpad actions while typing. But the current implementation makes it inconvenient to press e.g. "Ctrl" and "Left touchpad button" simultaneously. (This opens a link in a new tab in Firefox, so it is a handy combination when browsing using a computer with less than three touchpad buttons.) It would be much better if the modifier keys where ignored when monitoring keyboard activity.
I don't know if everybody else use modifier key combos as often as me, but for me this qualifies as a potential "papercut". At least the bug has the papercut-quality of being trivially fixable; it is just to start "syndaemon" with a "k" option in gnome-settings-
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 2 21:29:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-settings-
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Debian): | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | New → Fix Released |
This bug was brought up in the #ubuntu-bugs channel by Scienceman123. This seems, indeed, a clear case for a quick fix. While I check, I will add a patch (as proposed by the reporter), and set it as wishlist.