Saturday 15 June 2013

Temporarily disabling the touchpad when typing

Tired of typing and accidentally changing the cursor position? A little known trick in KDE enables you to disable the touchpad. It comes back after a configured amount of time.

1) Install kde-config-touchpad
2) K -> Applications -> Utilities -> Touchpad Management

Now you are able to configure the touchpad. You can select "Automatically turn off touchpad on keyboard activity".

This means that whenever you are typing, touching the touchpad will no longer cause you problems. After a short delay, once you have stopped typing, the touchpad will return into service.

3 comments:

  1. It is believed by some individuals in the IT world that typing professionally only applies to secretaries and typewriters, what if I told you that isn't all that true? It applies to everyone In the IT world even the "just beginners" have to in one stage of their career learn to type professionally.

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  2. It is believed by some individuals in the IT world that typing professionally only applies to secretaries and typewriters, what if I told you that isn't all that true? It applies to everyone In the IT world even the "just beginners" have to in one stage of their career learn to type professionally. typing service

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  3. Well, I suppose that everybody knows that laptops don't come with that regular desktop computer mouse. Instead, laptops have pointing devices such as touchpads, pointing sticks or trackballs.
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