Because I regularly use a plug-in mouse, I want to disable the entire trackpad when I do have the mouse, not distinguish different actions on the trackpad (so it's not only the palm press I want to extinguish). In case anyone else is in that same position, I use the bash script below to accomplish this. It's the same as that in
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-touchpad except that for us it's "Trackpad", not "Touchpad". (I'm on Quantal 12.10 and I couldn't get Carbonell's "touchpad-Indicator" to work for me.) declare -i ID ID=`xinput list | grep -Eo 'Trackpad\s*id\=[0-9]{1,2}' | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}'` declare -i STATE STATE=`xinput list-props $ID|grep 'Device Enabled'|awk '{print $4}'` if [ $STATE -eq 1 ] then xinput disable $ID echo "Trackpad disabled." else xinput enable $ID echo "Trackpad enabled." fi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092623 Title: touchpad multipoint touching opens Unity Dash Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a Dell 15z with a Cypress touchpad real work is almost impossible because the inevitable palm touch on the pad opens the Unity Dash. synclient reveals that the palm touch is registered as a 3-point touch, which is consistent with the observation that a clean 3 finger touch does in fact open the dash. Given that it is virtually impossible to avoid brushing the top corners of the touchpad, having the Dash shoved in your face over and over again is a real problem. Using the syndaemon without the "-t" option to disable mouse movement during typing also kills the multi-touch behaviour, but this is not a real fix because the latency in mouse movements it introduces is about as bad as the problem is partially solves. Only partially because if you pause to think during typing you are likely punished with a Dash in your face as you go to resume typing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1092623/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
