Interesting! I tried this with a 10 second disable time. And I tested to see that it was actually doing the disable. Sure enough, it did. I then moved the mouse. It continued to jump about. Looks like the touchpad is not interfering.
However I think I will like having syndaemon around when I use the laptop in the field. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > For synaptics touchpads there is a utility called syndaemon that will > turn off the touchpad while you are typing. > > It is quite useful on laptops. You can configure the timeouts too. > > Basically you have to wait a half-second after the last key press for > the touchpad to begin generating events. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Mike Cherba <[email protected]> wrote: >> To turn off the touchpad you have to go into the bios and find the >> touchpad device then disable it. Â That is the cleanest way. >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -Mike >> >> >> "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart >> as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." -Bernard >> Avashi >> >> >> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:28 -0700, Allen Brown wrote: >>> I don't know how to do that. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
