I can’t get the “disable touchpad while typing” setting to work on my laptop. I’ve checked the option from the touchpad gui panel. The option also seems to be enabled in libinput.
Here’s my system:
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Host: 20YM Lenovo ThinkBook 16p Gen 2
████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.15.81-1-MANJARO
████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 54 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 1457 (pacman), 14 (flatpak), 9 (snap)
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 2560x1600, 1920x1080
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Plasma 5.26.4
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: KWin
████████ ████████ ████████ WM Theme: WhiteSur-dark_x1.25
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: Tela-dark [Plasma], Tela-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Fira Code Medium 14
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 3.300GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q
Memory: 4236MiB / 31459MiB
Here’s my libinput list-devices output (I’m also using logi external keyboard and mouse atm):
Device: Video Bus
Kernel: /dev/input/event3
Group: 1
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Video Bus
Kernel: /dev/input/event4
Group: 1
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Lid Switch
Kernel: /dev/input/event1
Group: 2
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: switch
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Power Button
Kernel: /dev/input/event0
Group: 3
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Logitech K580
Kernel: /dev/input/event6
Group: 4
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Logitech Wireless Mouse
Kernel: /dev/input/event10
Group: 5
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: button
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
Device: Integrated Camera: Integrated C
Kernel: /dev/input/event25
Group: 6
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8296) Keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event13
Group: 7
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8296) Wireless Radio Control
Kernel: /dev/input/event15
Group: 7
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Ideapad extra buttons
Kernel: /dev/input/event8
Group: 8
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: MSFT0001:00 06CB:CE44 Mouse
Kernel: /dev/input/event18
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *button
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
Device: MSFT0001:00 06CB:CE44 Touchpad
Kernel: /dev/input/event21
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 117x72mm
Capabilities: pointer gesture
Tap-to-click: disabled
Tap-and-drag: enabled
Tap drag lock: disabled
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *two-finger edge
Click methods: *button-areas clickfinger
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Disable-w-trackpointing: enabled
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
Device: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event2
Group: 10
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
Device: Logi K580 Keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event11
Group: 11
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
My touchpad seems to be:
Device: MSFT0001:00 06CB:CE44 Touchpad
Kernel: /dev/input/event21
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 117x72mm
Capabilities: pointer gesture
Tap-to-click: disabled
Tap-and-drag: enabled
Tap drag lock: disabled
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *two-finger edge
Click methods: *button-areas clickfinger
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Disable-w-trackpointing: enabled
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
And the keyboard:
Device: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Kernel: /dev/input/event2
Group: 10
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: keyboard
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: none
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: n/a
I also created a /etc/libinput/local-overrides.quirks file and tried with different options, such as:
[Keyboard Override]
MatchName=AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
AttrKeyboardIntegration=internal
… as suggested on reddit.
But couldn’t get any results.
I’ve also tried installing synaptics touchpad drivers and using commands such as:
syndaemon -i 0.5 -t -K -R
But it didn’t work. I’ve since rolled back and don’t have synaptics anymore.
What is there left to try? Should I try tro create a script that manually disables the touchpad for a period of time every time a key is pressed? Could there be something I have missed? I would be grateful for any thoughts on this.
Thank you