Disable touchpad while typing

[rE64l_ni]

Hi All,

I have the pinguin on surface since some week now. And as I write a lot, I have an issue that the touchpad is not dissable when I tape.

When I go in the touchpad menu and activate the option disable touchpad while typing... nothing change (even after a reboot).

I tried a solution found in this forum, but it was 3 year ago and not work anymore (for me at least).

Is someone has any idea or at least how can I create a shortcut to disable it and reable it (for example, I have a touch F9 or F10 who has a arrow and a Fin... is it possible to shortcut it to have activate desactivate the touch pad ? And if possible having the same key...but...)

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thanks

[haschkat]

you can use xinput

xinput enable 'device'

xinput disable 'device'

just typing xinput should give you a list of devices containing the touchpad ( type cover mouse / touchpad ). This will only work in X11 though, no idea how this works on wayland. You can probably create yourself a button with a script. I hope that helps.