[Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901

[David L. Johnson]

Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:15:43PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote:
>> Ben Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> argh, sorry, i meant syndaemon
>> So, what does that do?  I have considerable trouble with 
>> touchpad-while-typing errors.  I'd love for the touchpad to be disabled 
>> whenever the usb mouse is plugged in.  Possible?
> 
> Thanks, Ben: syndaemon is exactly what I wanted.
> 
> David: you can manually disable it by using
>     synclient TouchpadOff=1
> It should be possible to do this automatically when you plug in a USB
> mouse, either with a udev rule or by using HAL somehow, but I haven't
> tried it.
> 
I tried the syndaemon instead, and it works reasonably well.  While I 
don't think there is a great advantage in having the touchpad and mouse 
active simultaneously (I'm no fan of the touchpad in general), turning 
it off while typing is sufficient to keep me from suddenly jumping 
around the screen while I type.

Thanks for the help.

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David L. Johnson

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