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Dmitriy Likhten
Asked: 2011-05-12 14:47:26 +0800 CST

Reduce touchpad touch sensitivity or disable tap-to-click unless key is pressed

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Is there a way to reduce the sensitivity to touch of the touchpad? I keep accidentally clicking while typing (disable while typing seems to have little use).

Other possible solutions to my issue: Hold a key to enable click of the touchpad. This way I can do work while holding key, otherwise it becomes inactive (ideal).

I cannot disable tough-to-click since the buttons on the touchpad are touch-enabled and very hard to press. You can imagine how painful/inaccurate that setup becomes.

11.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In the Software Center there is an application called Pointing Devices sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings That should have everything you need.

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  2. Go to Mouse settings. Under the General tab, there should be a slider for adjusting sensitivity under the Pointer Speed category.

    I don't know if there's a way to hold a key down to toggle the touchpad on and off, but you can set a keyboard shortcut to do so. Open up Keyboard Shortcuts, then press the 'Add' button and, under command, enter gconftool-2 /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled --toggle. Enter a name for the action, e.g. 'Toggle touchpad'. After applying, back in the main Keyboard Shortcuts window, under the 'Shortcut' column, enter in a keyboard shortcut of your choice.

    screenshot of keyboard shortcuts

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  3. syndaemon  - a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the
             touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

    Here is an example of how to use it: syndaemon -dtKRi 2

    • -d Runs the program in the background.
    • -t Disables clicks, but not mouse movement.
    • -K Allows you to still be able to Ctrl+click.
    • -R Uses XRecord extension to monitor the mouse instead of constant polling. (may not work for some ppl)
    • -i 2 Disables the touchpad for 2 seconds after pressing a keyboard key.
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