On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:49:33 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Peter, this is just what I want to do. I'll look into it more closely, thanks again. Best regards, JJ > Cheers, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > xorg-de...@lists.x.org: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com