edit to previous comment: I did some more research on this. Disable while typing is controlled by syndaemon. Disable while typing defaults to on and there is no way to change it through the GUI. The Wiki is wrong and system should support configuring all features of the touchpad through the GUI
joel@joel-UX303UA:~$ ps aux|grep syndae joel 1665 0.0 0.0 22504 1244 ? S Apr28 0:03 syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R -i enables "disable while typing" and 1.0 the length of time to disable it for. Man syndaemon for details -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575911 Title: Page on disabling touchpad while typing is erroneous To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1575911/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
