While extreme sensitivity of the trackpad is not a huge deal while clicking around on websites or other non-typing-related activities, I am sure that many others are finding it as frustrating as I am to try and type more than three words without the cursor relocating itself because of an errant click. When I am typing something of more than a few words (such as this comment, for example), I usually disable the trackpad--it is very easy to do from the command line.
First, do a "xinput" command to make sure that the pointer is showing up as a "PS/2 Generic Mouse". (You can see this output in comment #120.) Assuming that is the name your trackpad shows up with, the command to disable it is: xinput set-int-prop 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' 'Device Enabled' 8 0 and to reenable, you just issue the following: xinput set-int-prop 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' 'Device Enabled' 8 1 I have these commands in scripts called disabletrackpad.sh and enabletrackpad.sh. Until this gets fixed (and when will that be?) I can use the scripts to disable and re-enable the trackpad so that I can type for long periods without going batsh*t crazy. I hope that helps others with this issue. Postscript: I see that Sam already put this info into comment #95...Perhaps this repeat will help someone find it. Perhaps having another entry in this bug will spur someone to fix it. ;-) And if I get around to writing a single script to toggle the enable flag, send a message to libnotify, and map it to a shortcut key, I will post all that here as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/606238 Title: synaptic touchpad not recognized on dell latitude e6510 and others To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/606238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
