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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by dotancohen on Sunday October 20, 2019 @08:44AM (#21303774)
There is some tool I've forgotten that disables the touchpad when the keyboard is in use. You can set the timeout period, I think that my sweetspot was 1.5 seconds.

If you can't find it then let me know, I'll google it.

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by levesque on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:22AM (#21303953)
It's still rather clumsy though, if you go too fast from typing to touchpad you have to wait for the delay. If you set the delay to be too quick, you will get wrong clicks. It's more a question of palm detection, and the Linux touchpad drivers are not great at this.
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