I have an old HP laptop with tap-to-click turned on by default when there's no external mouse. It is annoying to be typing text and have your thumb accidentally brush the touchpad and suddenly you're typing in a totally different location in the text, wherever the mouse pointer happened to be aimed. Perhaps adding a touchpad lockout delay that momentarily disables tap-to-click for 1 second, or whatever, after a keyboard key is pressed would help, something like "debouncing" a switch contact in a driver. A control-panel parameter should be provided to adjust the lockout period -- some kids might need more than a 1 second lockout.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sebastian Silva<br>
<<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> BTW how do you disable it?<br>
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</div>Yeah -- can we disable it easily on F11 builds?<br>
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