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Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?


From: Arthur Miller
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:22:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (windows-nt)

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2021-03-31 03:41]:
>> 
>> I sometimes touch the touchpad accidentally, with a palm and caouse
>> cursor to jump around or trigger a pop-up. How can I tell Emacs to
>> ignore all touchpad events? I guess they are registering as mouse
>> events? I don't use mouse much in Emacs, barely at all, so I oculd live
>> without mouse completely.
>> 
>> Or can I turn it off per process in the os (windows)? I can't turn the
>> touchpad of in the system entirely, it is my wife's and I am just
>> borrowing it sometimes :).
>
> Some solutions are shown here:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/886092/how-do-i-disable-the-touchpad-while-typing
>
> First tell what operating system do you use, and if you use X.org or
> what? As solutions vary depending of the environment.

I was looking for something like how to tell emacs to ignore all mouse
events. The os is Windows, so unfortunately hacking X setup won't
help. Thanks anyway.



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