02-17-2020, 10:19 PM
This may not be a solution, but you can execute "synclient" from the command line to see the parms that the user-interface should be setting for you. (You can also change those. For example: "synclient touchpadoff=1" will turn off the touchpad.). The settings are documented here: https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/ma...ics.4.html
The only thing I do is turn off the touchpad in my .profile. (And then I assign a .sh script to a keyboard combination which will determine the current state, and toggle it. That way if I boot up without a mouse and need the touchpad, I can press Alt+Win+space.
I don't know how people can live with the touchpad on. I can't barely type a word without the cursor jumping somewhere. Apparently, using those parms you could (in a program monitoring keyboard activity) dynamically adjust sensitivity. (I read someone say they were going to write a program to do that. But, I never heard anymore more about it.).
The only thing I do is turn off the touchpad in my .profile. (And then I assign a .sh script to a keyboard combination which will determine the current state, and toggle it. That way if I boot up without a mouse and need the touchpad, I can press Alt+Win+space.
I don't know how people can live with the touchpad on. I can't barely type a word without the cursor jumping somewhere. Apparently, using those parms you could (in a program monitoring keyboard activity) dynamically adjust sensitivity. (I read someone say they were going to write a program to do that. But, I never heard anymore more about it.).