Synaptics Touchpad Woes: Prevent Cursor Jump During Typing
Maybe I am heavy-handed, but I have always had a problem when typing on my laptop of the cursor jumping to another part of the screen, and so my typing continues at that point. This is caused by sensitivity of the Synaptics - a merest brush of the touchpad whilst typing results in a mouse tap event.
Thankfully, this can be cured very easily with the syndaemon command. This disables mouse taps for a specified amount of time after typing finishes, with a default setting of two seconds. The command to run during a KDE xterm sessions being:
syndaemon -d -tFor convenience this should be added to the startup applications. In openSUSE 11.2 / KDE 4.3, do the following:
openSUSE->System Settings->Advanced tab->Autostart->Add Program
then add syndaemon -d -t and tick the run in terminal checkbox.
Next time you reboot your system, you can check it is working ok by opening an xterm session and typing:
# ps -ef | grep syndaemon
badzilla 2644 1 0 08:51 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/syndaemon -d -t
badzilla 8425 8407 0 10:03 pts/1 00:00:00 grep syndaemonSimple as that!
