[SOLVED] Ultrasensitive Mousepad

[Member alpage2]

I am running antiX 21 on an old Vista-era Acer Aspire 5315. The mousepad has always been very sensitive, not only on antiX.

When typing, the proximity of hand/wrist above the mousepad causes the mouse cursor to jump randomly to another point in the text. This occurs frequently, and does not need the hand/arm to be very close – an inch, perhaps.

Is there any way to configure the sensitivity of the mousepad?

Thanks in anticipation
Alan

• This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by alpage2.

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antiX Control Centre > Hardware > Mouse Configuration

Try changing ‘Mouse Acceleration’

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[Member blur13]

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I’ve had the same problem.

Try adding

syndaemon -i 1 -d &

to your startup file (.desktop-session/startup).

from the man page:

syndaemon – a program that monitors keyboard activity and disables the touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

DESCRIPTION
Disabling the touchpad while typing avoids unwanted movements of the pointer that could lead to giving focus to
the wrong window.
OPTIONS
-i <idle-time>
How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is 2.0s).
-d Start as a daemon, ie in the background.

[Member alpage2]

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Many thanks for both solutions.

Dropping the mouse acceleration from the default 5 to 1, or even zero, gives a marked improvement, but the problem could still be made to happen.

Using the syndaemon solution seems to have worked – great solution.

Thanks again
Alan

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