(06-21-2017, 08:30 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: Yes, but here's the rub-- many expensive notebooks have this same issue !
Is that really true? Or is it the fact that you promptly removed the operating system that had the drivers with the palm-guard checking functionality built in? :-P I think the issue you are conveniently not mentioning is that the manufactures aren't supporting linux anywhere near as well as they do Windows (yup, that ol' chestnut again!), and since you want to use Linux instead of windows, you are opting for a life of pain and suffering re: the touchpad. :-P Although I don't think this should be a problem for the plain Synaptic or ALPS touchpads... and more of an issue for those modified ones (yes, looking at you Lenovo... WTF where you thinking!!!) Anyway, I won't say any more on this topic, as we are deviating away from the OPs topic
Hopefully in the future we get some more info about the touchpads core functionality and get it to be more programmable, or can add some monitoring functionality that selectively disables and re-enables the touchpad based on keyboard activity... Then again, we should really look at enabling the palm detection that is built right into libinput. It may just be a matter of tweaking the hardware database so libinput knows more about the touchpad... or maybe it will need stronger encouragement
