HowTo: Disable Synaptics Touchpad While Typing

[Mais]

i think it should have gedit after gksudo like this -

You are absolutely right. I'll fix that asap.

To everyone else: Thanks for the positive feedback and everyone else who has been so helpful in getting people's problems solved. I have Ubuntu back on my laptop again so I'll try and be around to answer them myself again. You all are so quick at replying though

[phyrewall]

Works for me on a XPS M170, thanks!

[dustyhawk]

ok.... followed the "sudo killall gdm" however when that was done, system gone back to welcome page but nothing else happened. no login screen what so ever.

after the "sudo killall gdm" what was suppose to happen ?

[lagartoflojo]

After killing GDM and Gnome (that's what sudo killall gdm does) type sudo gdm to start GDM (Gnome) again. You should be back at your login screen. Nothing is supposed to be different, simply login normally and now when you type into, say OpenOffice, tapping on the Touchpad will not actually produce a click for a few seconds. Nothing more to it.

[dustyhawk]

After killing GDM and Gnome (that's what sudo killall gdm does) type sudo gdm to start GDM (Gnome) again. You should be back at your login screen. Nothing is supposed to be different, simply login normally and now when you type into, say OpenOffice, tapping on the Touchpad will not actually produce a click for a few seconds. Nothing more to it.

Therefore after typing sudo killall gdm it should not make the system jump back to the welcome screen right?

Because this is what is happening to me. Each time i use the sudo killall gdm in a terminal, it goes to the welcome screen but it will not display the insert username interface, it just displays the wallpaper and all keys including touchpad + external mouse connected to the laptop (IBM T42) does not function.

[lagartoflojo]

To tell you the truth, I never restart Gnome using sudo killall gdm. Instead I do sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
Try that and see if it works.
Regardless, I don't know where you are on the tutorial. It says to issue the killall command only if Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is not restarting Gnome. Is that where you are? If so, it means you have already modified xorg.conf, so you might as well just restart your computer (sudo shutdown -r now) and follow the rest of the tutorial (ie from "2. Add the Startup Command" on)

[dustyhawk]

To tell you the truth, I never restart Gnome using sudo killall gdm. Instead I do sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
Try that and see if it works.
Regardless, I don't know where you are on the tutorial. It says to issue the killall command only if Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is not restarting Gnome. Is that where you are? If so, it means you have already modified xorg.conf, so you might as well just restart your computer (sudo shutdown -r now) and follow the rest of the tutorial (ie from "2. Add the Startup Command" on)

This is where i am in the instruction :


H. This next step will restart your window system, so save any work and close any open applications. Press: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This should take you back to your login screen. If it does not, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login at the terminal window. After logging in, type the commands that you wrote down from step F in order hitting return after each command.

Should i be doing this :

in the terminal :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_synbackup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

enter (thing restarts)

then sudo killall gdm

enter

sudo gdm

??

Or when i use sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_synbackup /etc/X11/xorg.conf and press Enter and it restarts i go straight to


2. Add the Startup Command
A. Open the sessions manager: System -> Preferences -> Sessions
B. Click the far right tab labeled Startup Programs
C. Click the Add button
D. Type in the following: syndaemon -i 1 -d

?

[Gen2ly]

Hey thanks man! I here found this thing to be the most aggravating thing in Linux for sure

[Mais]

This is where i am in the instruction :


H. This next step will restart your window system, so save any work and close any open applications. Press: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This should take you back to your login screen. If it does not, press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login at the terminal window. After logging in, type the commands that you wrote down from step F in order hitting return after each command.

Should i be doing this :

in the terminal :

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_synbackup /etc/X11/xorg.conf

enter (thing restarts)

then sudo killall gdm

enter

sudo gdm

??

Or when i use sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf_synbackup /etc/X11/xorg.conf and press Enter and it restarts i go straight to


2. Add the Startup Command
A. Open the sessions manager: System -> Preferences -> Sessions
B. Click the far right tab labeled Startup Programs
C. Click the Add button
D. Type in the following: syndaemon -i 1 -d

?

You don't want to issue the cp command you have above unless X won't restart or your mouse won't work. That is your backup 'just in case.'

Try the ctrl-alt-backspace command and it should bring you to the login screen.

If it does not, hit ctrl-alt-F1, login there, and type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart.

If that does not work, hit ctrl-alt-F1, login if necessary, and type sudo shutdown -r now.

[dustyhawk]

I seem to going along smoothly now, however when placing

2. Add the Startup Command
A. Open the sessions manager: System -> Preferences -> Sessions
B. Click the far right tab labeled Startup Programs
C. Click the Add button
D. Type in the following: syndaemon -i 1 -d

I cannot get what is stated in the following link

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...5&d=1159952821

as it states "Text was empty (or included white spaces)