On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:22:37PM +0800, JJ Ding wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Notebooks usually have a touchpad as the default pointing device, and it > is most often placed just below the keyboard. This makes typing > sometimes annoying because users might touch the touchpad > unintentionally and cause the cursor to move away from your current > window or accidentally make the desktop or other windows active. > > Although some touchpads have the capability to sense palm actions, I > think palm detectoion is often not enabled by default, or just > unavailable. So is there any method to make X disable touchpad when > typing, or any API so I can write a program for this functionality? > > Any help would be appreciated, thank you very much.
syndaemon(1), should be part of the xf86-input-synaptics package. fwiw, synaptics has palm detection too, though whether it works is a different question. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
