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Bug 777494 - No way to enable touchpad while typing
No way to enable touchpad while typing
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 764852
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-01-19 14:11 UTC by Neil Roberts
Modified: 2017-01-19 14:43 UTC
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Description Neil Roberts 2017-01-19 14:11:41 UTC 
Apparently by default libinput disables the touchpad while typing. This means that with the Wayland version of Gnome Shell it’s not possible to play many first-person games using the touchpad because the keyboard and touchpad are needed simultaneously to move around.

Under the X11 version it was possible to work around this by toggling an xinput setting. There doesn’t appear to be any equivalent setting for mutter/gnome-shell.

Libinput has the function libinput_device_config_dwt_set_enabled to disable this behaviour. I have been using this to work around the problem by temporarily attaching gdb to the gnome-shell process and then forcing it to call this function. It would be nice if this could be exposed as a dconf setting or something.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2017-01-19 14:43:19 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
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 764852 ***