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I am using the HP Envy x360 15'. Everything works fine but it has an unusually large touchpad (for better Windows 8 usability). Every time I am typing I accidentally am hitting the touchpad and the mouse pointer jumps somewhere else creating chaos during typing.

The solution is to install Touchpad-indicator (as described here) and set the Disable touchpad on typing -option. As far as I understand this uses Sysdaemon which is installed with any Ubuntu installation.

The problem is however that the seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad -setting can only be set to 1 or 2 seconds. So far so good, but after using the 1 second setting for days now I have the feeling that my finger falls off as this setting is way too long to be practically usable when working with text.

You can fine-tune Sysdaemon as described here. For me, the command syndaemon -i 0.3 -d -K works best, but it does not autostart when I create an entry in Startup Applications. Is there any way to finetune sysdaemon in 15.04 and make it autostart?

Consumology
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  • You have a reputation score of 216, change the layout of your question plz =) – A.B. Jun 10 '15 at 18:31
  • @A.B. Working on it :) – Jacob Vlijm Jun 10 '15 at 18:34
  • @Pilot see the dupe, then you are one of the lucky ones :) ; in many cases, a break is needed. (As a reaction on the comment on the deleted answer) – Jacob Vlijm Jun 10 '15 at 18:49
  • Interesting. In Ubuntu there is an option "Disable touchpad while typing" that starts exactly same command. But I never had problems. I have to set delay in syndaemon to 2 sec. – Pilot6 Jun 10 '15 at 18:51
  • Thank you Jacob, I can confirm that your command works! Since I have a SSD I used 10 instead of 15. Thanks a lot, this is such a relief! – Consumology Jun 10 '15 at 18:51
  • Did you try the checkbox in system settings. It can be used instead. – Pilot6 Jun 10 '15 at 18:52
  • @Consumology Perfect, glad it works. I thought I answered a question on a related subject some day, but didn't expect it to be the same answer/question :) – Jacob Vlijm Jun 10 '15 at 18:53
  • @Pilot6: Not in normal Ubuntu system settings, at least in 15.04 what you mean was there when I installed "gpointing-device-settings". I guess it is the same setting as in Touchpad-indicator but from what I understand the time delay is hardcoded in Gnome so there is no chance to use other values but 1 or 2 seconds there. And this is exactly what was killing me. – Consumology Jun 10 '15 at 19:09
  • Hardcoded is 0.5 sec. And there really is no way to change unless make a custom build. Nut I made so many builds, so that's not a problem. But it needs maintaining. – Pilot6 Jun 10 '15 at 19:13
  • Yes, a GUI solution would be perfect for people like me... – Consumology Jun 10 '15 at 19:15
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    @Jacob: Actually I did not immediately see your answer to my question (you've been too fast ;-) but found your solution from the other post at the same time. I tried that approach first and it also worked of course. – Consumology Jun 10 '15 at 19:19
  • Could you also please add your original explanation to my question to the other post - I found it most clear but since I accepted my question as a duplicate it is no longer accessible! – Consumology Jun 10 '15 at 22:08
  • @Consumology Of course! Done. Thanks for suggesting. – Jacob Vlijm Jun 11 '15 at 04:59

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