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[Jason Gerard DeRose <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maarten,

System76 has been using a patched unity-settings-daemon that launches
syndaemon with:

    syndaemon -i 0.75 -K -R

This has worked extremely well for us on Trusty (and we have solid
customer survey data confirming that this has greatly improved the user
experience).

However, something strange is going on with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
in Utopic. If you get syndaemon into its "disabled" state by typing a
quick burst of characters, you can often keep it stuck in this disabled
state by moving your finger back and forth on  the track pad.

It seems as if the inactivity countdown isn't starting till there is a
period when neither any keypresses nor any mouse movement has happened.

Can you think of any changes that might have cause this behavior?

Steps to reproduce:

1) open gedit
2) move finger back and forth on clickpad, confirm that cursor is moving back and forth
3) while continuing to move finger back and forth on the clickpad, type a few characters... cursor should disappear
4) cursor should be re-enabled around 0.75 seconds after you stop typing, but sometimes it will remain stuck in the disabled mode as long as there is more or less continuous motion on the clickpad
5) if stuck in the disabled state, it seems briefly lifting your finger off the track pad is reliable way to unstick it

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323006

Title:
  touchpad too sensitive. focus jumps all over document on text input

Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  I am a very fast typist. 
  When I type into emacs, gedit, and libreoffice, the focus jumps around when I am typing. I look up and find I have just entered text in a different area. This happens all the time. 
  I have set the touchpad to "disable during text input" and this doesn't seem to work. Perhaps this command is broken.
  I have a lenovo x230 tablet computer, with touchpad.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.7.4-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.15.0-2.6-lowlatency 3.15.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.15.0-2-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun May 25 09:27:11 2014
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: utopic
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-22 (32 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  LightdmGreeterLog:
   ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1171): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/susan/.face': No such file or directory
   g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
  LightdmGreeterLogOld: ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:1161): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/susan/.face': No such file or directory
  MachineType: LENOVO 3434CTO
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.15.0-2-lowlatency root=UUID=7a4f9c50-a2d1-43cb-865b-dbc9949a4cf7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/25/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: GCET21WW (1.10 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 3434CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Defined
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGCET21WW(1.10):bd07/25/2012:svnLENOVO:pn3434CTO:pvrThinkPadX230Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn3434CTO:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 3434CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X230 Tablet
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.54-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu5
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Sun May 25 09:20:59 2014
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   product id                                 728 
   vendor                                     LGD
  xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu5

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