How to turn off touchpad while typing? (in basic openbox-pcmanfm DD) (Solved)

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How to turn off touchpad while typing? (in basic openbox-pcmanfm DD) (Solved)

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New laptop has arrived.

The subject line says it all. Gnome/mint/Ubuntu all seem to have a setting that you can have it automatically turn it off while you are typing and there are some command line things I can try.

Even a hotkey would be better than nothing. I can't really type on it like this.

If anyone knows the solution off the top of their heads...

Dan

SOLVED:

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syndaemon -i 1 -t -K -R -d

Needs to be put into a script file in .../Startup to persist.

https://ostechnix.com/disable-touchpad- ... syndaemon/

Let us break down the above command and see what each argument does.

-i : Defines how many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. In my case, I have set 1 second. The default value is 2.0 seconds.
- t : Only disable tapping and scrolling functions, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.
-K : ignore Modifier+Key combos.
-R : Use the XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activity instead of polling the keyboard state.
-d : Start syndaemon as a daemon in the background.

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Re: turning off your touchpad while typing in basic openbox-pcmanfm DD

Post by wizard »

Hi Dan,

Welcome to my world, try here, some utilities work better on synaptics touchpads vs elan. viewtopic.php?t=6085

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Re: SOLVED: turning off your touchpad while typing in basic openbox-pcmanfm DD

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Our messages crossed.

It's mostly under control now.

It was a pretty annoying 10 minutes.

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