Elmer E. Dow wrote: > When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) > a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text > ... > What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did > I bump the Trackpoint nor the mouse. I'm not accidentally hitting
I am confident it is the touchpad. I have the same problem.
Disabling the touchpad will avoid the problem. Personally I did not
want to unconditionally disable the touchpad. I would use it more if
it were not for that annoying behavior.
The syndaemon gives me great relief and results.
$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
* It also provides a daemon to disable touchpad while typing at
the keyboard and thus avoid unwanted mouse movements (see
syndaemon(1)).
It detects keyboard activity and for a configurable time disables the
touchpad. When idle is detected it enables the touchpad.
I launch it like this (in my ~/.xsession file, but you would need more
than this there).
syndaemon -i 20 -K -p $HOME/var/run/syndaemon.pid -d
Bob
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