Bug 1053007

Summary:	Touchpad -- disable while typing
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Martin <mholec>
Component:	gnome-settings-daemon	Assignee:	Rui Matos <rmatos>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	tpelka
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	EasyFix
Target Release:	7.0
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Description Martin 2014-01-14 15:02:52 UTC

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-7.0-20140109.n.0

Steps to Reproduce: 

 1. Open Mouse and Touchpad settings (Settings)
 2. Click on Touchpad tab
 3. Make sure that Disable touchpad while typing is checked
 4. Open gedit
 5. Type with one hand, move cursor using touchpad with the other
 6. Stop typing, keep moving

Actual results: 
Touchpad is not disabled while typing.

Expected results:
The cursor shouldn't move while you type, it should start moving after you stop
typing

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-27 14:51:32 UTC

What's the output of:
ps aux | grep syndaemon
?

Comment 2 Martin 2014-01-27 16:39:16 UTC

$ ps aux | grep syndaemon
mholec    3679  0.0  0.0 112636   992 pts/1    S+   17:37   0:00 grep --color=auto syndaemon

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-01-28 09:04:40 UTC

Looks like syndaemon isn't started. Might be gnome-settings-daemon getting confused.

Comment 4 Ondrej Holy 2014-01-30 10:16:43 UTC

FYI gnome-settings-daemon should spawn syndaemon with -t option which mean only disable tapping, not mouse movements...

There is something wrong if syndaemon isn't spawned, but I am unable to reproduce it with RHEL-7.0-20131016.1.

Be sure disable-while-typing is true:
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing

Run settings-daemon manually with debug information:
killall gnome-settings-daemon; /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon --debug

Do you see something like
(gnome-settings-daemon:20119): mouse-plugin-DEBUG: Launched syndaemon
or 
(gnome-settings-daemon:20119): mouse-plugin-DEBUG: Failed to launch syndaemon 
?

Comment 5 Martin 2014-01-30 11:42:34 UTC

"syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R" is now running. Maybe it was fixed by some update or it crashes only after extensive Control Center testing.

From "Disable while typing" option in "Touchpad" section I was expecting to disable whole touchpad during typing, including mouse movements.

I see now this option disables only tapping and scrolling. I think "Disable while typing" description is little confusing. I propose change it to "Disable tapping and scrolling while typing" or at least "Disable tap while typing".

Comment 6 Ondrej Holy 2014-01-30 12:15:54 UTC

(In reply to Martin Holec from comment #5)
> "syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R" is now running. Maybe it was fixed by some
> update or it crashes only after extensive Control Center testing.
> 
> From "Disable while typing" option in "Touchpad" section I was expecting to
> disable whole touchpad during typing, including mouse movements.

We can remove -t option, however the time have to be decreased...

Comment 7 Ondrej Holy 2014-02-06 12:57:00 UTC

-t option have been added by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673055

Comment 8 Ondrej Holy 2014-02-06 15:29:33 UTC

So, it works correctly, however the label is quite misleading. We can't change simply translated strings at this point.

I've filed it upstream: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723770