During my quest to get HAL working to configure the touchpad on my EEE, I also discovered that I don’t need Touchfreeze to disable unwanted touches on my touchpad. All I need is syndaemon. Of course, in order to use syndaemon you need the synaptics driver running, so my efforts were not wasted.
The command I settled on for syndaemon was as follows:
syndaemon -i 1.5 -t
That’s the command line version. Of course, what’s more useful is having it taken care of automatically. I placed it in my .xsession file with the -d option added to make sure it ran as a daemon. Now it fires up whenever I startup X.
Also, either SHMConfig is enabled by default in the newer version of the synaptics driver, or it is no longer necessary. I removed the option from my fdi file and syndaemon works just fine. No more touches while typing.
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Which one is the “.xsession” file. Can you write the full name?
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The .xsession file I was talking about is the one in your
homedirectory. So, on the command line it’s~/.xsession.