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TouchFreeze docks in your system tray (KDE/Gnome) and disables button click events while typing.It’s similar to ksynaptics if you know that but more simple.
touchfreeze is a program that disables your touchpad when you are typing. This prevents unintended click and scroll events when part of your hand touches the touchpad while you are typing.
After you stop typing, there is a certain delay before your touchpad is enabled again. You can set the value of the delay by moving the slider in touchfreeze’s window. touchfreeze’s window appears when clicking on its dock icon.
touchfreeze only disables click and scroll events coming from your touchpad. It does not disable cursor movement, neither any events coming from your mouse.
Differences:
- no configuration of the touch pad
- ksynaptics ranks high on powertop
- no additional dependencies but Qt4
Install Touchfreeze in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install touchfreeze
Or click on the following link to install
nice
This is a nice idea. I installed it from the repositories and when I run it I get a segmentation fault. Anybody else see this?
Ubuntu 9.10, amd64
Lenovo T400
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$ touchfreeze
SynDaemon::SynDaemon
set daemon true
set pad true
using typing delay of 500 ms
“/usr/bin/synclient”
initial state is TouchpadOff= 0
Segmentation fault
WOW! This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you very much!
Work around to above Segmentation fault bug…
cd /usr/local/bin/
touch start-touchfreeze
sudo chmod 755 start-touchfreeze
sudo vim start-touchfreeze
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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/kdesudo /usr/bin/touchfreeze
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cd ~/.kde/Autostart/
ln -s /usr/local/bin/start-touchfreeze touchfreeze
Now log out and log in
doesn’t 9.10 has this feature by default - under preferences->mouse->touchpad ?
Yes, but not in kubuntu, hence the handy tip.
Thanks for the workaround. Works on Kubuntu 9.10. But it would be nice if the tool although run with user rights.
It does not work for my satelite A300. When I installed it and run it nothing happens. Touchpad working normally. When turn it off and on nothing happens.
Sorry!
The latest version just released(I installed it from source) prevents the Segmentation faults with the latest qt and KDE.