For what it's worth, under 13.10 and earlier versions, I found the trackpad experience could be greatly improved by tweaking parameters via the synclient command. Particularly useful were MaxSpeed and {Horiz,Vert}Hysteresis.
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Tim Kuijsten wrote: > @gildasvend #85 > > Have you been able to fix the disable when typing issue? If not, have you > seen these instructions? > http://askubuntu.com/questions/462135/touchpad-issue-jumping-cursor-while-typing-ubuntu-14-04-syndaemon-dont-help > > I've tried 12.04 on a MB Air a couple of years ago, but switched back > after only a couple of days since I couldn't fix the trackpad and it > kept jumping around when working on the terminal. Made me completely > crazy. > > I would really like to switch from OS X to Ubuntu, but only if the > trackpad comes somewhat close to the OS X experience. Reading about all > these trackpad issues on the "supposed to be Ubuntu friendly" XPS13 > leaves me still a bit unconvinced that it would be all ok by now.. > > -Tim > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1265885). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305522 > > Title: > Backport Synaptics HID touchpad driver for 14.04 > > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in “linux” source package in Trusty: > Fix Released > > Bug description: > Synaptics just upstreamed a new set of HID touchpad driver: > > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for-3.16/rmi4&id=9fb6bf02e3ad04c20edb8e46536ce3eeda32c736 > > It's better we can have it in 14.04 . > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1305522/+subscriptions > > -- Nate Eldredge n...@thatsmathematics.com -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305522 Title: Backport Synaptics HID touchpad driver for 14.04 Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Trusty: Fix Released Bug description: Synaptics just upstreamed a new set of HID touchpad driver: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for-3.16/rmi4&id=9fb6bf02e3ad04c20edb8e46536ce3eeda32c736 It's better we can have it in 14.04 . To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1305522/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp