[PATCH libinput 00/11] disable-while-typing refinement

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon May 25 15:52:47 PDT 2015


A couple of patches to refine disable-while-typing which in its current
incarnation works but its slightly annoying.
The biggest change is 11/11 which adds a new approach: if a touch started
after the last key press we release it once the timeout is over. So in the
normal use-case where a user types, then moves the hands to touch the pad
the finger set down will be released shortly after, even if it was set down
within the timeout. If the user touches with a palm while typing (i.e
after the first key press and before the last key press), the palm remains
disabled, so resting a palm on the touchpad while typing is safe to do.

We also release any touch already down before the typing sequence, though
I'm not 100% on a real-world case for this, it was just a side-effect of the
implementation.

Cheers,
  Peter


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