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automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - dieselnutjob - 07-29-2020
Hi
Is there a way to suppress the trackpad when typing?
Sometimes my palm accidentally touches the pad when I'm in the middle of typing something, and in the worst case selects a block of text already written, and them my next key stroke overwrites it.
What I would really like is a feature that for n seconds or microseconds after the last key press that the trackpad just doesn't do anything.
If I don't press a key for n period of time then the trackpad would automatically start working again.
I'm on KDE on Manjaro and I'm new to both.
thanks DNJ
actually I think I just found it
the Enable/Disable Touchpad tab in Touchpad in Settings
the default is 250ms
It would seem that I don't type fast enough :-)
RE: automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - gabeeg - 07-29-2020
(07-29-2020, 05:24 AM)dieselnutjob Wrote: Hi
Is there a way to suppress the trackpad when typing?
Sometimes my palm accidentally touches the pad when I'm in the middle of typing something, and in the worst case selects a block of text already written, and them my next key stroke overwrites it.
What I would really like is a feature that for n seconds or microseconds after the last key press that the trackpad just doesn't do anything.
If I don't press a key for n period of time then the trackpad would automatically start working again.
I'm on KDE on Manjaro and I'm new to both.
thanks DNJ
actually I think I just found it
the Enable/Disable Touchpad tab in Touchpad in Settings
the default is 250ms
It would seem that I don't type fast enough :-)
I wish Manjaro/KDE gave finer grain control of the trackpad settings, like you have above. There is nowhere in the GUI that I have found where you can set the disable time for the trackpad
...I am sure there is some config file somewhere where I can access that...but I have thus far been too lazy to find it. I may give the synaptics driver some have had success with.
RE: automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - dieselnutjob - 07-29-2020
in KDE Manjaro do this:-
Start menu:-
Applications
Settings
System settings
In the left column of system settings:-
Hardware
Input devices
Touchpad
On the right half of system settings:-
Enable/Disable Touchpad
Highlight the box "Disable touchpad when typing"
Select the timeout that you like. I now have mine at 750ms and so far so good
RE: automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - gabeeg - 07-29-2020
(07-29-2020, 02:59 PM)dieselnutjob Wrote: in KDE Manjaro do this:-
Start menu:-
Applications
Settings
System settings
In the left column of system settings:-
Hardware
Input devices
Touchpad
On the right half of system settings:-
Enable/Disable Touchpad
Highlight the box "Disable touchpad when typing"
Select the timeout that you like. I now have mine at 750ms and so far so good
On my Manjaro 20.06 KDE on my PBP I have all the above...but I can only enable or disable the setting "Disable while typing" It does not give me an option to adjust the MS timeout period....I can only enable or disable. We are probably on different firmware or drivers.
RE: automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - dieselnutjob - 07-30-2020
I have this firmware, just applied last week https://github.com/jackhumbert/pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater
This is what my settings screen looks like
![[Image: Screenshot_20200731_013327.png]](http://pscan.uk/images/Screenshot_20200731_013327.png)
RE: automatically suppress trackpad when typing? - gabeeg - 07-30-2020
...Time for me to flash the Humbert firmware (I believe I did actually...very early on in the dev. Looks like I should do it again). Thanks!