Add ability to turn off touchpad about switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad HOT 3 CLOSED

Guys. There is syndaemon for this already, which comes automagically with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package. Just integrate it in this switchboard plugin. Man page is pretty simple. Some reasonable defaults like syndaemon -d -k -i 0.2 would be much appriciated by laptop-centric fellas like me.

@VisioFX just add syndaemon -d -k -i 0.2 to your autostart settings and enjoy. With this, while you type touchpad will be disabled for 0.2s. Plus if you press modifier keys only (alt, shift, ctrl, meta and may be something else) touchpad would be working still.

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There is a setting at org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events that should work for this, but seems to be broken due to #19.

But even if it worked, I'm not sure turning the trackpad off completely is a good idea, unless we provide a keyboard-friendly way to turn it back on; imagine the case where someone with only a trackpad as a pointer device hits the toggle and now can't turn it back on.

There is also an option in Unity to "Disable touchpad while typing" which uses syndaemon under the hood; something similar might be a better approach, or we could see if LibInput has a way to do the same.

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There is now a setting to disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected. Ignore while typing is also turned on by default. I would say this is probably solved now

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