I think I found the problem. While figuring out what's happening with "Disable touch while typing" with syndaemon, I tried running it manually "syndaemon -i 3 -k -t -R" and it started working much better!
So, I looked at what the default command was for syndaemon from a fresh boot, and found it to be "syndaemon -i 0.5 -K -R". That specified disable duration to be 0.5 sec, which is waaay too small. MacBook pro has this little disadvantage of having a huge trackpad, which means part of it on the right-side is partly touching the palm most of the time when touching - and any "relaxation" during typing will often trigger touch-clicks. syndaemon's 2 sec default seems to be better tuned, *but* apparently this value was overridden with a hardcoded (nice!) value of 0.5 in gnome-settings-daemon, which launches this daemon. Hence, I can't change it just like that. However, it looks like g-s-d realized the mistake and was changed to "2.0 sec" (still hardcoded, it would be much better to have it set as a dconf key): http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings- daemon/tree/plugins/mouse/gsd-mouse-manager.c#n528 The patch was done in 2010 http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings- daemon/commit/plugins/mouse/gsd-mouse- manager.c?id=3de30a7a14db5c3cdd88ead2e51a7f24cb071377; But the question is why is it still 0.5 in my 12.10 presice installation. I have no idea and I am still trying to figure it out. The g-s-d version I have installed is 3.3.92, which seems to be fairly recent. Note, increasing the timeout to 2 sec isn't going to solve it completely, but will reduce the instances to much lower number and hopefully much less annoying. Will further comment once I figure out why it's stuck at 0.5 sec for me. If anyone running precise can do "ps aux | grep syndaemon" and let me know his value, I will be grateful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962958 Title: Touchpad in macbook pro gets clicked all the time randomly when typing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/962958/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
