Disable touchpad tapping while typing (that is sooo annoying)

[benanzo]

I got ahold of a little insider secret for those of you who are exercising the advanced functionality of your touchpads on the MacBooks and Pros.

You need to have SHMConfig "on" in your xorg.conf in order for this to work.


You're going to use a little utility called syndaemon

make this script and have it run at login:

#!/bin/bash

# Disable touchpad for 2 seconds after last key press
# to prevent accidental touchpad activation while typing.

/usr/bin/syndaemon -d -t -i 2

the -d flag tells syndaemon to run all the time and monitor the keyboard presses
the -t flag tells it to only disable tapping and scrolling, not pointer movement
the -i flag is how long (in seconds) to disable the touchpad *after* the last keypress

There are a few other options available to fine-tune which keypresses count, ie Fn combos etc.

man syndaemon

will fill you in.

I felt this was just important enough to bring up 'cause, dang, I HATE it when my mouse jumps all over because I accidentally tapped the touchpad with my wrist.