I have an Asus laptop and I am using its inbuilt keyboard to type. The cursor keeps jumping from place to place while I type and sometimes it even deletes the sentences I write.
I have tried using the solutions mentioned in the link below, but unfortunately, they didn't work.
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all and sudo apt-get --purge autoremove xsuerver-xorg-input-all && sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all
Other information Ubuntu 17.10 dual boot with windows 10 intel icore 5 ASUS Q304
ram 6 Gb ram 6 GB
13 Answers
I have had that problem for years and just figured it out to night. Just go into system settings > mouse & touchpad > take the check mark out of the box for Tap to click. Violla no more mouse scurrying accross your screen when you are typing. The one pitfall is that now to click somethings is that you have to actually push on your touchpad instead of just tapping.
I have just run into a recurrence of this particular problem, and found an obscure post which seems to have helped my issue:
My laptop also has a touch screen (which I never use) and this is interpreted largely in the same manner as the touchpad. There seems to be some conflict in the 'disable-while-typing' routine, and I found that disabling the touchscreen fixes the issue. There is an open bug report on this issue at
Run the command xinput to list your devices. Mine output is
xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M315/M235 id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD: In id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]In my case, I found that disabling the 'ELAN touchscreen' with the command
xinput set-prop 10 "Device Enabled" 0has caused the touchpad to behave in the manner I expect - namely that the device is disabled while I am typing and my palm or wrists brush against the touchpad.
Sounds like your hand/thumbs are touching the touchpad while you type.
If you go into system setting there should be an option to disable the touchpad while typing.
