Confirming this behavior with Dell Latitude 7370, Kernel 4.8.4-040804-generic
When typing in basically turn off my touchpad. With $ xinput find your device id $ xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 BYD TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ThinkPad Bluetooth Laser Mouse id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] TouchPas a id 12 Then disable touchpad with: xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0 When done typing, reenable it with xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 1 Clumsy but better than dealing with jumping cursors... -- 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/1590590 Title: Touchpad not recognized on Dell Latitude E7470 Ultrabook To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1590590/+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
