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AutoTouchpad

Automatically turn off tap to click while typing on Ubuntu. Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys are excluded but their combinations are not, i.e. Alt + Tab still disable touchpad for 1 second.

The program use xinput to listen for keystrokes and disable the touchpad for 1 second after a normal key is pressed. You need to run xinput list to determine the id of your keyboard and replace the 17 in command xinput test 17 with the id you found.

Example output of xinput list is

xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0    id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0    id=12   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ DLL082A:01 06CB:76AF Touchpad             id=14   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=18   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0    id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD                      id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel Virtual Button driver               id=15   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel HID events                          id=16   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    **↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=17   [slave  keyboard (3)]**
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                          id=19   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Microsoft Microsoft® Nano Transceiver v1.0    id=20   [slave  keyboard (3)]

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