{"id":11958,"date":"2009-11-29T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:38:11","slug":"disable-touchpad-while-typing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/disable-touchpad-while-typing\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable touchpad while typing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlespeng.com\/post\/422.html\">this blog post<\/a>, which, among other things, has this excellent tip for us, laptop and netbook users &#8211; how to disable touchpad while typing.\u00a0 The tip is specific for Gnome desktop and is rather easy to follow.\u00a0 Navigate to <em>System \/ Preferences \/ Mouse<\/em> menu, switch to <em>Touchpad<\/em> tab, and check &#8220;<em>Disable touchpad while typing<\/em>&#8221; box.\u00a0 Then close dialogue window and enjoy.\u00a0 Here is a screenshot to make you life even easier.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/disable-touchpad-while-typing\/mouse_preferences_touchpad\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mouse_preferences_touchpad.png?fit=489%2C575&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"489,575\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gnome : System \/ Preferences \/ Mouse \/ Touchpad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mouse_preferences_touchpad.png?fit=489%2C575&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11959\" title=\"Gnome : System \/ Preferences \/ Mouse \/ Touchpad\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mouse_preferences_touchpad.png?resize=489%2C575&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gnome : System \/ Preferences \/ Mouse \/ Touchpad\" width=\"489\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mouse_preferences_touchpad.png?w=489&amp;ssl=1 489w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mouse_preferences_touchpad.png?resize=255%2C300&amp;ssl=1 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I came across this blog post, which, among other things, has this excellent tip for us, laptop and netbook users &#8211; how to disable touchpad while typing.\u00a0 The tip is specific for Gnome desktop and is rather easy to follow.\u00a0 Navigate to System \/ Preferences \/ Mouse menu, switch to Touchpad tab, and check &#8220;Disable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/disable-touchpad-while-typing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disable touchpad while typing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[292,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-gnome","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11954,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/fedora-12-and-intellibook-rtl8187se\/","url_meta":{"origin":11958,"position":0},"title":"Fedora 12 and IntelliBook (rtl8187se)","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently got my hands on an IntelliBook netbook (site in German, but the machine is actually Clevo M810L).\u00a0 It's a really small, light, and simple machine, which I got for nothing, and which, I haven't got it for nothing, would cost me around 400 EUR.\u00a0 The truth is, if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"intellibook","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/intellibook.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":44332,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/10\/git-tips-disable-diff-prefix\/","url_meta":{"origin":11958,"position":1},"title":"Git tips: disable diff prefix","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandur\/status\/1182066723337293828 Pure gold.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14788,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/23\/disable-and-enable-cakephp-plugins-on-the-fly\/","url_meta":{"origin":11958,"position":2},"title":"Disable and enable CakePHP plugins on the fly","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I am currently working on a rather large project which is based on CakePHP framework. \u00a0In order to simplify the task, I've broken down the whole application into a number of CakePHP plugins. \u00a0Now, however, I want to enable\/disable plugins on the fly. \u00a0After a brief search around I couldn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42452,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/10\/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-centos-rhel-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":11958,"position":3},"title":"How to disable IPv6 on CentOS \/ RHEL 7","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I miss the good old days ... 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