Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
The "Disable touchpad while typing" option is useful to avoid accidental touchpad actions while typing. But the current implementation makes it inconvenient to press e.g. "Ctrl" and "Left touchpad button" simultaneously. (This opens a link in a new tab in Firefox, so it is a handy combination when browsing using a computer with less than three touchpad buttons.) It would be much better if the modifier keys where ignored when monitoring keyboard activity.
I don't know if everybody else use modifier key combos as often as me, but for me this qualifies as a potential "papercut". At least the bug has the papercut-quality of being trivially fixable; it is just to start "syndaemon" with a "k" option in gnome-settings-daemon-2.27.5/plugins/mouse/gsd-mouse-manager.c:
args[0] = "syndaemon";
args[1] = "-i";
args[2] = "0.5";
args[3] = "-k";
args[4] = NULL;
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 2 21:29:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.27.5-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
This bug was brought up in the #ubuntu-bugs channel by Scienceman123. This seems, indeed, a clear case for a quick fix. While I check, I will add a patch (as proposed by the reporter), and set it as wishlist.