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Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:11:49 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06)

* Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 03:41]:
> 
> I sometimes touch the touchpad accidentally, with a palm and caouse
> cursor to jump around or trigger a pop-up. How can I tell Emacs to
> ignore all touchpad events? I guess they are registering as mouse
> events? I don't use mouse much in Emacs, barely at all, so I oculd live
> without mouse completely.
> 
> Or can I turn it off per process in the os (windows)? I can't turn the
> touchpad of in the system entirely, it is my wife's and I am just
> borrowing it sometimes :).

Some solutions are shown here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/886092/how-do-i-disable-the-touchpad-while-typing

First tell what operating system do you use, and if you use X.org or
what? As solutions vary depending of the environment.

-- 
Jean

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