[SOLVED] syndaemon and disabling touchpad while typing

stormtracknole · 04-25-2015, 10:35 AM

Greetings!

It appears that either the new kernel or xorg has broken the way syndaemon disabled the touchpad while typing. I've been googling around, but have been unsuccessful so far. I remember running the 3.17 kernel version a while back on 14.1 and running into the same issue. So, my guess is that the problem points to the kernel.

I had this bit of code in my autostart:

Code:

syndaemon -R -k -i 1 -d

Even using xinput doesn't work. So, I'm a bit out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

Bertman123 · 04-26-2015, 08:56 AM

If you use the KDE desktop you can install kcm_touchpad from slackbuilds. That will allow yuo to configure the touchpad from the system settings.

stormtracknole · 04-26-2015, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bertman123

If you use the KDE desktop you can install kcm_touchpad from slackbuilds. That will allow yuo to configure the touchpad from the system settings.

I tried both kcm_touchpad and flsynclient without any success.

travis82 · 04-26-2015, 11:49 PM

Quote:

If you use the KDE desktop you can install kcm_touchpad from slackbuilds. That will allow yuo to configure the touchpad from the system settings.

also xfce has a built-in tool to configure touchpad which works fine for me.

stormtracknole · 04-27-2015, 07:39 AM

Man, I feel like an idiot. I completely got tunnel vision and did not notice the extra settings for the touchpad. Disable while typing now works as intended. Thank you both for your tips. Marking this as solved.

Lysander666 · 06-02-2018, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travis82

also xfce has a built-in tool to configure touchpad which works fine for me.

Sorry for the necro, could someone please confirm that this refers to

Code:

syndaemon -i 2.0 -K -R

and no other setting in LXDE? The above works fine but I wonder if there's anything else I'm missing. I can't see separate settings for the touchpad, neither in Mouse/Keyboard settings.