'Disable touchpad while typing' function waits too long

[Urs Gasser]

Hi

Kudos for Ubuntu MATE 16.10 ! The suspend function now works correctly on my Macbook Air 6.2 Notebook :-)

The function Mouse > Touchpad > General > 'Disable touchpad while typing' is a very good idea, but unfortunately it disables the touchpad for too long. There is a two-second time-out on my system. It's like a bug. I had to disable this function again. Instead I now use the following command in the 'Startup Applications':

syndaemon -i 1.0 -K -R -t

Most people will not know this trick. The lagging touchpad is a bummer on an otherwise very nice distro.

Feature request: Why not provide a flexible disable span from 0 to 5 seconds or so, in 0.25-second steps? Maybe with the possibility to test the configuration before the value is stored? This is just a suggestion. But it would be easy to implement I guess and very effective !

Many thanks in advance for your time.

Kind regards
Urs

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

This is fixed in mate-settings-daemon 1.18.0 that will be available in the upcoming Ubuntu MATE 17.04.