Description of problem: on Thinkpad of the 40 series (Lenovo Thinkpad T440s) the setting under gnome-control-center mouse "Disable while typing" is not working. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Gnome 3.14.2 on Fedora 21 Beta How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. set the option "Disable while typing" in gnome-control-center mouse 2. open a document and hold down a key 3. place the mouse cursor via touchpad at the beginning of the line and click while typing Actual results: cursor moves while typing Expected results: to have cursor stay fixed while typing Additional info:
Same bug on RHCE7: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155505
Hey, thank you for your bug report. Moving is allowed, only tapping and scrolling should be disabled (see Bug 1053007). However it seems clicking isn't also disabled according your bug report, could you confirm it? Also please check if syndaemon is running, what is output of the following command: $ ps ax | grep syndaemon
There is relevant upstream report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691281
Can you please give instructions how to disable cursor moving also, it is really distracting an annoying to have cursor move while typing. Lenovo has enlarged touchpad on their latest models so it is not possible not to touch touchpad while typing :(
Please answer my questions, we can't do much if we don't know this info. Is syndaemon running? Is clicking/scrolling disabled properly? You can run syndaemon without -t option by hand to avoid also movements: syndaemon -i 1.0 -K -R However this won't work if syndaemon doesn't work properly for you currently.
Nope clicking is also not disabled, I can use touchpad normaly while typing. Including screenshot. Also syndaemon is running: ps aux|grep synd valent 5914 0.0 0.0 23368 2640 ? S Dec02 0:00 syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R valent 17308 0.0 0.0 112996 2300 pts/0 S+ 16:35 0:00 grep --color=auto synd
Created attachment 964186 [details] control panel screen shot
When I manually start syndaemon without -t option then cursor is not being moved while typing, but clicking is working even with tryping (I don't care about that either way) but scroll now doesn't work. I can scroll with moving two fingers up and down on touchpad. Even disabling two finger scroll, exiting gnome control panel, enabling two finger scroll still doens't fix this issue.
(In reply to Valent Turkovic from comment #8) > When I manually start syndaemon without -t option then cursor is not being > moved while typing, but clicking is working even with tryping (I don't care > about that either way) but scroll now doesn't work. > > I can scroll with moving two fingers up and down on touchpad. I can't scroll...
I've debugged it. Scrolling is corrupted when you execute syndaemon by hand and there is already running syndaemon from gnome-settings-daemon (or another one). You have to be sure there isn't running another instance of syndaemon in your system, before you run syndaemon by hand. So you have to disable it in gnome-control-center and then you can execute e.g. on startup for example.
We need more info to fix this bug. Please answer the question on the upstream bugzilla.
$ sudo ps aux|grep synd valent 13564 0.0 0.0 23368 2568 ? S 19:09 0:00 syndaemon -i 1.0 -t -K -R valent 13593 0.0 0.0 112996 2484 pts/0 S+ 19:10 0:00 grep --color=auto synd valent@frajer src$ if I kill that process and run "syndaemon -i 1.0 -K -R" then curson is not being moved while typing. Click via tapping isn't working, but moving the cursor and pressing the touchpad (equal to clicking on new Lonovo 2013 models because there are no more dedicated buttons) This looks like bad default settings. When users choose "Disable while typing" then syndaemon should rung without "-t" option in order for mouse cursor not to move during typing.
So it looks like synaptic daemon works correctly but who ever thought these are sane defaults is very, very wrong.
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