Comments on: TouchFreeze - Tray icon that disables your touchpad while typing

By: Bob-El

Bob-El — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:48:05 +0000

How do I uninstall “Touchfreeze”. When I type “sudo apt-get remove touchfreeze” I get this:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
touchfreeze
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:57:15 +0000

me again, sorry:
terminal says this:

set daemon true
set pad false
using typing delay of 1070 ms
“/usr/bin/synclient”
initial state is TouchpadOff= 0
disable touchpad
Couldn’t find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
set pad false
disable touchpad
Couldn’t find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
set pad false

What can I do? Thanks for any help!

Simon

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:55:18 +0000

Same for me: touchpad disabled, but it still works absolutely normal.
ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Netbook Remix

By: dg

dg — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:35:20 +0000

Does anyone know if touchfreeze will “work” now in the latest ubuntu? It is installed and says my touchpad is disabled, but it isn’t and is driving me crazy! Any known fixes?

By: Trinae Ross

Trinae Ross — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:42:50 +0000

Is it me or does Touchfreeze not work in Ubuntu 10.4. Downloaded it, installed it and the cursor still ends up in weird places while typing. In 9.10, I didn’t have that issue. I am using an Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T. Any ideas?

By: Divan Santana

Divan Santana — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:43:09 +0000

The latest version just released(I installed it from source) prevents the Segmentation faults with the latest qt and KDE.

By: martin

martin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:18:23 +0000

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!

By: Fabian

Fabian — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:17:10 +0000

Thanks for the workaround. Works on Kubuntu 9.10. But it would be nice if the tool although run with user rights.

By: Divan Santana

Divan Santana — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:57:52 +0000

Yes, but not in kubuntu, hence the handy tip.

By: digi

digi — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:16:38 +0000

doesn’t 9.10 has this feature by default - under preferences->mouse->touchpad ?

By: Divan Santana

Divan Santana — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:26:17 +0000

Work around to above Segmentation fault bug…

cd /usr/local/bin/
touch start-touchfreeze
sudo chmod 755 start-touchfreeze
sudo vim start-touchfreeze
---
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/kdesudo /usr/bin/touchfreeze
---
cd ~/.kde/Autostart/
ln -s /usr/local/bin/start-touchfreeze touchfreeze

Now log out and log in

By: Hesto

Hesto — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:48:42 +0000

WOW! This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you very much!

By: Vancouverite

Vancouverite — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:03:56 +0000

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
=============
$ 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

By: user

user — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:50:30 +0000

nice