When searching for solutions to cursor jumping around, I found a lot of references to touchfreeze – a package that disables touchpad while typing. Only it is no longer part of any repository that I can find. All links to it are invalid.
e.g. http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/touchfreeze
Is there an alternative?
The package was removed after 10.04 (and 10.04 is no longer supported, which is why you can’t find it in the repositories). From the publishing history on Launchpad:
Removal requested on 2010-07-28. Deleted on 2010-07-28 by Jonathan Riddell (From Debian) ROM; superior alternative exists, never in stable; Debian bug #587415 The Debian bug report mentioned says:
Please consider removing touchfreeze from Debian:
Sp, perhaps you should look into this kde-config-touchpad, whatever that is, if it still exists.
You do not need a separate application to achieve that. Simply run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true or
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false to either disable or enable touchpad while typing.
The other answers are excellent, but I’d just like to note that in the “Touchpad” pane of the settings screen for “Mouse and Touchpad” in 15.10, there’s a tickbox that says “disable touchpad while typing” and which does what it says on the tin.
This is Cinnamon with a theme so Unity or other desktops will look different but I promise the button is in the same spot
Related
What happened to touchfreeze? – askubuntu.com #JHedzWorlD
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