There's a workaround tool at http://sourceforge.net/projects/touchdaemon/develop which detects keyboard activity and disables/re-enables the touchpad accordingly. There's a patch posted there which is a good improvement, to use X calls instead of shelling out subcommands. Without the patch I had to fixup some string handling errors, and the invocation is messy, like this: ./touchdaemon -d -m 100 -c 'xinput set-int-prop "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" "Device Enabled" 8' instead of ./touchdaemon -d
(I ran the tool with a 100ms polling interval because the 200ms interval seemed to let the touchpad back in from time to time.) To build the tool I needed sudo apt-get install libx11-dev xserver-xorg-dev I found the tool by seeing it mentioned here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=733079 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/727259 Title: Dell Precision M4500 trackpad is detected as a PS/2 Generic Mouse -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
