From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Till Straumann <Till.Straumann@TU-Berlin.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:04:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030125220422.A18276@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301251558.30600.staikos@kde.org>; from staikos@kde.org on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:58:30PM -0500
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-29 1:34 [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing Till Straumann
2002-11-29 5:31 ` Ethan Benson
2002-12-03 1:47 ` Michel Dänzer
2002-12-03 5:03 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-25 17:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 19:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-25 20:58 ` George Staikos
2003-01-25 21:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-01-25 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-25 18:04 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-26 9:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 21:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-27 19:16 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 19:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-27 21:33 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-27 21:49 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 22:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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