Comment 30 for bug 240738

I'm also affected by this seemingly small, but extremely annoying bug and it took me a couple of days before finding this report.

My MacBook 5,1 and Asus Eee PC are both affected by it and it already made me upgrade to Oneiric in the hope it was fixed and then back to OS X before giving it a new try. I'm wondering why nothing is mentioned on the Macbook pages (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook5-1/Natty).

Adding the earlier mentioned undocumented -m option to syndaemon (-m 20) makes the situation a lot better (although I'm not sure how this affects battery power) together with the new sensitivity slider in Oneiric it might get pleasant to use my Macbook touchpad in Ubuntu once Oneiric final is out ;-)

On a side note, it might increase the likelyhood someone finds this bug by changing the subject to contain what is in the english gui, on Natty this is "Disable touchpad while typing".

ps. does someone know how to add this -m option to syndaemon on every login? I grepped on syndaemon but didn't find anything in /etc or ~, also nothing in "Startup Applications Preferences".