Only disable touchpad after a certain number of keypresses

Bug #995095 reported by Leo Nikkilä
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
New
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

The feature that disables the touchpad on laptops when typing is great, but it has an annoying side effect: it disables the touchpad after just a single keystroke. This makes typing keyboard shortcuts and then clicking/scrolling a pain. A solution would be to only disable the touchpad after a certain number of keypresses has occured during a time frame, for example 5 presses in 2 seconds.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, g-s-d only calls syndaemon from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, reassigning the bug there

affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: none → quantal-11-misc
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sepero (cowpie2000) wrote :

g-s-d should use the -K option on syndaemon. This solves this issue by Not disabling the touchpad when meta keys are used (ctrl shift super alt).

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