From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:04:22 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: George Staikos Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Vojtech Pavlik , Till Straumann , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing Message-ID: <20030125220422.A18276@ucw.cz> References: <3DE6C428.5000403@TU-Berlin.de> <20030125184701.A16865@ucw.cz> <1043521480.3684.32.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <200301251558.30600.staikos@kde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200301251558.30600.staikos@kde.org>; from staikos@kde.org on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:58:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:58:30PM -0500, George Staikos wrote: > On Saturday 25 January 2003 14:04, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 18:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:34:32PM -0800, Till Straumann wrote: > > > > OK, here's a trivial patch (linux-2.4.18) for disabling/ignoring > > > > the mouse/trackpad while typing. It can be very convenient on notebook > > > > computers. > > > > NOTE: this patch works only on machines using the 'new' input layer > > > > (e.g. Apple Powerbook, ibook, ...) > > > > > > > > The holdoff time can be adjusted via sysctl/procfs - see description > > > > in the patch file. > > > > > > It's a very nice idea, but I'd prefer this to be handled somewhere > > > higher than the IDE code, preferably in X ... > > > > Well... the problem happpens in console as well, and with other > > non-X apps like MacOnLinux. Some Apple PowerBooks have over-sensitive > > trackpad. Apple themselves implement a similar mecanism in the kernel > > driver of OS X. > > Mine is one of those machines. I have to turn off gpm for sure, and X is > quite oversensitive too (tuned it in KDE, but still this functionality would > be very nice). How about implementing it in mousedev.c? -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/