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'Disable touchpad while typing' option not available
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Mouse Settings

Comments

Description Gregor Santner 2018-10-24 01:57:34 CEST
Created attachment 8060 
left-doc-right-mine

Hi!
I wanted to play some small games on XFCE desktop and noticed that I can't move mouse when typing.
XFCE docs show that there should be an 'Disable touchpad while typing'  option in mouse/touchpad settings, but there is no such option available anywhere.

In attached screenshot left is from the doc, while on right is what I do see.
Link to docs: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/mouse 
I'm having a generic/common Synaptics touchpad which is correctly recognized as such.

Version/sys info:
* Arch Linux with Xfce 4.12
* xfce4-settings-manager 4.12.4
* libinput 1.12.1
* xf86-input-libinput 0.28.1
* xorg-xinput 1.6.2

As shortly noted in docs, the toggle seems to invoke "syndaemon" somehow. Don't know hows the state on that but libinput doesn't package this additional tool, also it's not available to install separately.
Comment 1 chase.valiente 2019-04-11 06:40:01 CEST
I have this problem on my system as well. I recall that the option used to be there, but is no longer. I hope someone can fix this soon.
Comment 2 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 23:11:23 CEST
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Bug #14793

Reported by:
Gregor Santner
Reported on: 2018-10-24
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

People

Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
unspecified

Attachments

left-doc-right-mine (216.52 KB, image/png)
2018-10-24 01:57 CEST , Gregor Santner
no flags

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