Hi all,
i've been looking for a solution of a problem which should be easy to solve but actually is not. I've just installed my Debian 9 Xfce desktop version on my laptop (which has also Xubuntu and the latest Fedora working with Xfce).
I've found this issue which is not improving at all my first Debian experience: the touchpad does not work while i'm typing. Google says that it is possible to enable/disable this option but in my system it can't be done or, at least, I am not able to do it.
I googled for solution (of course): someone say that i should have a tab in the System Settings - Mouse and touchpad dialog that allow me selecting the Enable/Disable option while typing: I don't have this tab. Someone suggest that, if there are more than one touchpad options available one should be disabled and everything must work: I have two options for the touchpad and one was disabled by me. If i disable the other one the touchpad does not work so I disabled the one which let me using the pad but still the problem is not solved. Also someone suggest to go through the terminal using Syndaemon which, in my system, appears not to be present. It is also not possible to install it since it seems that the package can't be found. Finally installing or using Synaptics seems impossible since it has the same issues of Syndaemon: command not found and/or impossible to find the packages while trying to install it.
Am i missing something?
any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
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[SOLVED] Stretch Xfce touchpad: enable/disable while typing
[SOLVED] Stretch Xfce touchpad: enable/disable while typing
Last edited by gabrielet on 2017-06-20 14:25, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Stretch Xfce touchpad issues: enable/disable it while ty
It depends on which driver is currently being used for the touchpad. See the following links for more infomation.
Firstly detemine the current touchpad driver from the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
The first link contains infomation on how to disable "disable touchpad while typing" with driver "libinput" or "synaptics".
The second link explains how you can make the setting stick across reboots.
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/ ... ile-typing
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... ersistent/
Firstly detemine the current touchpad driver from the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
The first link contains infomation on how to disable "disable touchpad while typing" with driver "libinput" or "synaptics".
The second link explains how you can make the setting stick across reboots.
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/ ... ile-typing
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questi ... ersistent/
Re: Stretch Xfce touchpad issues: enable/disable it while ty
Thank you for the hints! It seems we're going in the right direction using Xinput.
I must have missed the link you've suggested: many thanks for the fast and useful reply!
I must have missed the link you've suggested: many thanks for the fast and useful reply!