TouchFreeze – Tray icon that disables your touchpad while typing
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
—
#!/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 🙂
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.
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?
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?
Same for me: touchpad disabled, but it still works absolutely normal.
ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Netbook Remix
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
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