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

[Arthur Miller]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * 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.

Forgott to say: if I got it to work via Emacs, it would be OS independent.