Comments on: Temporarily Disable Touchpad While Typing

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:01:58 +0000

This seems to be working well on my laptop (Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell Inspirson 1520), though the thing is smart enough to know when you’re just pressing the same key over and over again to test it, it seems — I kept trying that to see if it was really working to if I was just good at avoiding the trackpad anymore, lol.

It is not, in fact, clicking/selecting until two seconds after I finish typing. Perfect.

I used to have an HP that had a little button that disabled the trackpad. While this is more intuitive for combination writing & browsing (like blog posts or articles or whatnot), when I was writing for long periods of time I still think that was the most convenient feature ever.

Thanks for sharing! It was exactly what I was looking for.

By: Geoff Walker

Geoff Walker — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:59:10 +0000

I have recently bought a HP Notebook and have installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it. The touchpad actions while I was typing was frustrating as it would take me away from the place I was typing even to previous screens.

I eventually found the “disable touchpad while typing” was activated, but the default was 2s which was not enough. Thanks to the info here, I have increased it to 5s which is much better.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:34:56 +0000

I use this on my ACER AspireOne Netbook running Ubuntu 9.04 Remix and it works like a charm! Thank you for the small script. Will pass it on and give you Kudos where I go!

By: David Harvey

David Harvey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:41:36 +0000

My wife has an ASUS F3T laptop, she got a virus, wiped the hard drive, reloaded the drive, but deleted a program I had found somewhere to turn off the touchpad and use the mouse instead. While typing, if you inadvertently touch the touchpad, you mess up your message typed. How do I find this program again, or what file do I go into to turn it off permanently. Thanks. davidharvey13th@yahoo.com

By: Joe_Linux

Joe_Linux — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:22:25 +0000

Is it possible to create a Macro for this menu sequence?

By: ligae

ligae — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:02:17 +0000

On a Dell Latitude D630 with Intrepid 8.10, I use System > Preferences > Mouse, in the Touchpad tab, disable/enable synaptic touchpad.

By: SuD

SuD — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:20:33 +0000

I’d also check to disable keyboard and touchpad when closing laptop lid. I have an HP-Compaq nx7300 which has touchpad buttons too high, so when i close lid it presses both buttons at the same time, typically pasting whatever to a root console…

By: LoX

LoX — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:21:06 +0000

Worked like a charm for me… first try! Great for ooffice documents — I’ll never have the problem again.

By: With A Little Help From My Friends « Adventures In Computing

With A Little Help From My Friends « Adventures In Computing — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:16:09 +0000

[...] off” function key for the touch pad so I had to find something else. With the help of Christer Edwards I have a solution for this. You have to make sure that in the xorg.conf you have SHMConfig [...]

By: Ed Button

Ed Button — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:14:43 +0000

It works great on my ASUS Z60J (Fiesty).

Thanks!