-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > Hello, > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate > > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer > > > is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but > > > maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have to live/deal with it. > > > > > > thanks > > > Bernd > > > > My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I couldn't > > help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply removed the > > synaptic package and have had peace ever since. > > Is there not a Fn+Key combination to activate/deactivate the touchpad > minus the hassle?
There is a command "synclient" which allows, among other things to switch on/off a synaptics touchpad. I know I've seen some use it to disable the touchpad when any key was pressed, to re-enable it . Here's a link (a program called syndaemon does the trick): <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Disable_trackpad_while_typing> Disclaimer: I haven't tried it. regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbS7b4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbZ2QCfT3Y0+mHeG9L/CqgCeLCiG02W UIUAn2yMb69WD3r33EmD6U73LiWiHTSo =ZMtN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
