touchpad fix?

[PattiMichelle]

In 10.10 KDE I was able to disable the touchpad automatically when typing, and I believe whenever a mouse was detected - can't seem to find either of those settings in Natty. Can someone point me in the right direction? The dv7t-4000 lappie has the worst touchpad in recent history.

[wizard10000]

Re: touchpad fix?

In 10.10 KDE I was able to disable the touchpad automatically when typing, and I believe whenever a mouse was detected - can't seem to find either of those settings in Natty. Can someone point me in the right direction? The dv7t-4000 lappie has the worst touchpad in recent history.

sudo apt-get install kde-config-touchpad



After you install that you'll find it in the touchpad section of systemsettings --> keyboard and mouse.

If you want to disable the touchpad while typing as opposed to when a mouse is detected you'll need to run syndaemon as a startup application. Default for syndaemon is touchpad is disabled until two seconds after you stop typing, but you can configure it.

[PattiMichelle]

Re: touchpad fix?

thanks - you mean "Input Devices?" I saw that there was already a touchpad module in System Settings but it didn't have that entry.

EDIT - says it's already installed. Still nothing in there for either disabling it when a mouse is plugged in or when typing. Computer almost unusable due to the cursor jumping around when typing... did someone forget to port this to Natty? (help!)

[wizard10000]

Re: touchpad fix?

Sorry - I guess that's not an option in Kubuntu. I'm gonna have to be a little more careful since apparently there are some subtle differences between Debian and Kubuntu.

I attached a screenshot of what I get - but if turning the touchpad off isn't an option I'd suggest adding syndaemon as a startup application. See syndaemon's man page - it's really simple and for most people I wouldn't figure you'd need any command-line switches as the default is 2 seconds, which is a long time if you're typing

[ubuntuku]

Re: touchpad fix?

sudo apt-get install kde-config-touchpad



After you install that you'll find it in the touchpad section of systemsettings --> keyboard and mouse.

In kubuntu natty you'll find it in Utilities - synaptiks :

[img width=400 height=330]http://i.imgur.com/l7HQ6.jpg[/img]

[wizard10000]

Re: touchpad fix?

There you go - thanks

[PattiMichelle]

Re: touchpad fix?

THANK YOU EVERYONE (smile+tears)
I have a lot of programming to do and that jumping cursor was giving me fits!!!! (I know those keypad controls were there in the KDE applet in 10.10 because I wasn't smart enough to have solved this otherwise...)

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <- happy girl!

Edit: well maybe I was wrong - maybe I did find this utility in 10.10... They say memory is the first thing to go...

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TriBoot: Win7 (always crashes); OpenSuSE11.4; Kubuntu Natty

[jelang]

Re: touchpad fix?

I, too, have had fits with the touchpad causing the mouse cursor to jump around on the screen. I am sure that with 10.10 I found the same thing as PattiMichelle did and was delighted to do so. However, I wrote a bash script that works around the problem back under 10.04 and I've been using it again on 11.04.

#!/bin/bash

# This script toggles the state of a Synaptics Touchpad.
# That is, if the Touchpad is turned off it turns it on and vice versa.

synclient TouchpadOff=$((1-$(synclient -l | awk '/TouchpadOff/{print $3}')))

I run this script from /usr/local/bin/tpad.