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The touchpad is supposed to be disabled when typing text, but isn't and
texts get randomly selected, deleted, cursor moved, inserted elsewhere
etc. due to spurious clicks the "proximity" of the hand causes on
touchpad.
I do have "disable touchpad while typing" set to true in mouse settings
->touchpad. (btw, I am curious why this setting even present given I
couldn't imagine anyone wanting to switch it off, even when gaming - I
think I will file a separate bug).
This happens so often, like every few secs when typing, that it's super
annoying to the point of not being able to use the laptop.
The only way out is to disable "Enable mouse click with touchpad"
setting. Then, it's very hard to use touchpad on macbookpro because of
the amount of physical clicks involved in middle of the touchpad making
select-and-drag kind of operations almost impossible. Either way, it's
unusable, so I recomment higher severity for this bug.
I am running 12.04, updated like yesterday, but I have seen this happen
before in 12.04. So, I don't think this is due to last release. The
macbook pro I have is, I think version 8,2. Please let me know if more
info is needed from me. Thanks.
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium
Status: New
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Touchpad in macbook pro gets clicked all the time randomly when typing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962958
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