GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 621836
"disable touchpad while typing" doesn't work when typing slowly
Last modified: 2012-05-23 17:20:59 UTC
I checked "Disable touchpad while typing" in the Mouse Preferences, but its disabling time is too short, so it is not useful when typing slowly. Please add a slider (or another instead) to change disabling time.
We're not going to add a slider, but the default value of 0.5 seconds was definitely too low. I've changed it to use 2 seconds, which is the default used by syndaemon.
commit 3de30a7a14db5c3cdd88ead2e51a7f24cb071377 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Tue Dec 7 18:23:25 2010 +0000 mouse: Disable touchpad for longer The default is 2 seconds, so when disabling the touchpad while typing we should probably disable it for 2 seconds unless there's a very good reason not to use that value. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621836
Created attachment 188848 [details] [review] Added setting to configure amount of time touchpad is disabled after typing I found my touchpad difficult to use with the delay set at 2 seconds, so I added a GSettings setting (org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad.idle-time) to configure the amount of time the touchpad is disabled after a key is pressed. I made these changes starting at commit bfc79ef855127547433df5d348a19640f67ebc85 (not sure if that's important or not--this is my first time doing this). I don't know what the GNOME policy is on superfluous dconf settings, but I understand if this patch isn't accepted :)
*** Bug 672423 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please consider Snowball's patch, this is really annoying for some of us.
(In reply to comment #5) > Please consider Snowball's patch, this is really annoying for some of us. You're not going to get much luck commenting or adding patches to a closed bug. The value is now 1 second, see bug 590783.