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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:22:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB4977B270270E2739F5B76BC2967C9@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGQElesvufaRx4FN@protected.localdomain> (Jean Louis's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2021 08:11:49 +0300")

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-31  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-31  0:40 Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:11 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  5:22   ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-03-31  5:23   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  5:40     ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31  6:05       ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  6:25         ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  6:55           ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 10:33             ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:36               ` Jean Louis
2021-03-31 12:34                 ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31  8:32 ` Yuri Khan
2021-03-31 10:31   ` Arthur Miller
2021-03-31 10:34     ` Jean Louis

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