[arch-general] Keyboard AND/OR Mouse issue (OR Xorg)

[Guus Snijders]

On 13-02-11 04:34, Nicolás Adamo wrote:

[...]
> -Synaptics Keypad (xf86-input-synaptics)
[...]
> The issue is that whenever I'm writting, regardless of what application
> I'm working in, there's some sort of random "paste" of some signal text.
> Examples are: "MouseNavigationClick"; "GoogleSearch" if there's an open
> firefox, etc. I have no certain evidence, but I suspect it's when some
> of my fingers touch the mousepad.
> Example of what I see:
> $ pacman -S k3...
> and suddenly it comes out: $ pacman -S k3SignalSlotMouseb

Hello Nicolas, your message did ring a bell over here and a quick search 
on the wiki revealed this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

Somewhere near the end, there is a section about (automatically) 
disabling the touchpad while typing.


Hope that helps.


mvg,
    Guus