On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > Hello, > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate touchpad. > My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer is running wild. > I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware > failure, so I have to live/deal with it. > > thanks > Bernd
My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I couldn't help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply removed the synaptic package and have had peace ever since.