I think you can edit the xorg.conf in order to disable the touch pad and that seems to help with the jumping cursor. I found out how to do this via an Ubuntu help page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad You can read the link, but I think the instructions pretty much go something like this: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open the xorg.conf file via the Terminal/ Konsole, Find a part called "InputDevice" with: Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" written underneath. Before the text "EndSection" add the following line: Option "SHMConfig" "on" (Make sure it's set out in the same way as the rest of that section.) Save, exit then restart your X server, which can be done by pressing ctrl + alt + backspace Once you are back on your desktop, open the Terminal/Konsole and enter the following command: synclient TouchpadOff=1 That will disable the touch pad. Enter the same command again with a value of 0 to re-enable the touch pad. **Make sure to do this correctly as messing up the xorg.conf file will cause problems.** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As an alternative to entering the disable command in the terminal every time, you could make a shell script file or assign keys to those commands to make it easier to execute. I think that within Ubuntu, you can just write that command in a text editor, save it and run it as an executable via the prompt when you click on the file. I think that: #!/bin/sh is required at the start of the text file to make it executable in Kubuntu- though please correct me if I am wrong. There might be some programs that do this for you as well- QSynaptics??- but I remember it not working so well for me a few months ago. These commands however do resolve the problem temporarily, though of course, it means that the touch pad is disabled for the duration of your current session. It might be a bit futile me posting these commands up in that whilst it is a temporary solution to the annoying jumping cursor problem, it doesn't actually solve the problem, as I'm sure that the aim of this bug report is to find a way to stop the touch pad from messing with the cursor, without having to disable it. I do hope this problem gets fixed soon. -- mouse pointer moves cursor while typing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135062 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
