http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/126/
[950 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #126


[23 votes] Solution #2: Detect typing and ignore accidental taps


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Another option would be to have a setting where you could have the touchpad disabled whenever you plus in a mouse, then have it enabled when you unplug all your mice.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:25:37 +0000
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434625]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:32:14 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:18:44 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/554/]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:27:04 +0000
Long term solution is to fix the touch pad driver to use something other than shared memory for run time configuration changes.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:56:18 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:29:34 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:02:06 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:53:02 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:58:52 +0000 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:36:38 +0000
I dont know how Windows handles this but it doesnt give me this problem... In Ubuntu is frequent to screw the text up... Decreasing my productivity (:PP)]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:42:05 +0000
For people who don't like this behavior, I recall there is a "palmdetect" option in the synaptic driver. It may not work with ALPS touchpads, though. Take a look at synclient or one of its GUI relatives to see if you can change the options to your liking.]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:22:22 +0000 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:48:16 +0000
..but not on by default.]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:01:13 +0000 Also Touchpad configuration should be possible easily on a default installation. ]]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:49:43 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:43:33 +0000 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:21:48 +0000
Having it disabled by default is a horrible idea.]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:46:55 +0000 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:12:34 +0000 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:35:14 +0000 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:05:00 +0000 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:46:17 +0000 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:03:07 +0000 there should be an override though...]]> Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:31:51 +0000 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:13:00 +0000
Touchfreeze enables you to set a time delay (0.5sec) between the last keystroke and the mouse pad becoming active.

I was always having problems with accidently moving the cursor to a new postion while typing. It drove me nuts!!!!

It should be very easy to add the Touchfreeze functionality into the mouse preferences.
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