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Bug 658980 - disable touchpad when using trackpoint
disable touchpad when using trackpoint
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: mouse
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-13 18:41 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2015-01-19 14:34 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2011-09-13 18:41:58 UTC 
When using the trackpoint and its associated buttons on an x220 I find myself accidentally touching the touchpad and causing pointer jitter. It would be cool if we could disable the touchpad when using another pointer when there is actually only one pointer on screen.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-16 10:45:03 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617932 ***
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2011-09-16 15:51:38 UTC 
Not sure if that is really a dup. I don't want to have a setting that toggles between the two devices - I just want to only use one at a time.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-16 16:03:47 UTC 
Right, if the only problem is the palm touching the touchpad, there's work in the kernel drivers to add better palm detection, which is a better idea than adding a new configuration option for this.
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2011-09-16 16:15:35 UTC 
Yeah sort of my palm I guess. But sometimes my thumb when I'm using the buttons.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-16 16:36:17 UTC 
I'm not sure how we could present that nicely in the UI then. The way the Lenovo bits do it under Windows is to have a key combination to manually do that.
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2011-10-25 16:46:19 UTC 
Definitely not a dup. There shouldn't be any UI for this but should be disabled temporarily while it is in use.
Comment 7 Peter Hutterer 2011-11-10 22:14:24 UTC 
Should probably be added to syndaemon but the sanest implementation is one server release away. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42799 for an outline, adding this to RECORD would be the quickest solution. If you want to have a crack at it go for it.
Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2012-01-10 17:26:07 UTC 
Any update on this?
Comment 9 Peter Hutterer 2015-01-18 23:02:52 UTC 
An update on a 3-year old bug but for the archives: that is implemented in the libinput backed driver and enabled automatically. No toggle is exposed and I don't think ever will for the old xorg drivers.

For some libinput-related progress see bugs 740604 and 739397 for example.
Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2015-01-19 14:34:48 UTC 
This will be fixed in GNOME 3.15.4, when using the libinput-based X11 driver, or Wayland.

Thanks Peter.