To enable Syndaemon to automatically start on every system reboot, simply add the Syndaemon command in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file. To avoid this, you can make it to start automatically on login as explained in the following section. You have to manually start this command every time to disable the touchpad. Please note that this setting will not persist across system reboots. -d : Start syndaemon as a daemon in the background.-R : Use the XRecord extension for detecting keyboard activity instead of polling the keyboard state.– t : Only disable tapping and scrolling functions, not mouse movements, in response to keyboard activity.-i : Defines how many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad.Let us break down the above command and see what each argument does. To automatically disable the Touchpad while you typing on your Keyboard, just run the following command: $ syndaemon -i 1 -t -K -R -d In that case, install the following package instead: $ sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-hwe-18.04 Disable Touchpad While Typing In Ubuntu Using Syndaemon The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics : Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.18.99.901)Į: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstableĭistribution that some required packages have not yet been created On latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version, I couldn’t install xserver-xorg-iput-synaptics package due to dependency problem. To install it on Ubuntu, just run: $ sudo apt install xserver-xorg-iput-synaptics Syndaemon is installed as part of the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package on Ubuntu.
Please note that it won’t permanently disable the Touchpad altogether, but only when you type. Syndaemon helps you to avoid the accidental touch of your palm which messes up with the writing whenever you type something important. Since the touchpad is disabled, the mouse pointer will not randomly jump or move all over the screen when you accidentally place the palm of your hand on the touchpad. Syndaemon is command line program that monitors the keyboard activity and disables the Touchpad when the keyboard is being used. Today, we will see yet another way to do it with Syndaemon in Ubuntu-like systems. A while ago, we discussed a few different ways to automatically disable Touchpad while typing in Ubuntu and its variants.
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