Comment 11 for bug 1295526

Confirmed this is still a problem on a recent install of Ubuntu 16.10 on an HP Spectre X360 13" with touchscreen.

Syndaemon is running in the background, but it's not working. The trackpad on the Spectre is physically much wider than it needs to be and due to the left-offset to the keyboard your right thumb-palm almost requires it as a rest for typing on the laptop is an exercise in keeping the mouse pointer in the same window as your text, and positioned after the end of what you're typing... So any random press doesn't result in a cursor move.

I found if I killed the stock syndaemon, and re-started it with a timeout of 2.0, performance was greatly improved. But I haven't been successful in making that setting stick through a reboot.