I expressly click anyway, by pushing down, rather than lightly tapping. Doing that suggested that maybe just turning tap off might be an idea. Update: I suddenly thought I should look at what options are available for libinput. It isn’t perfect (typing shift+colon in the line above cause the cursor to jump, and indeed it also jumped as I typed “shift” in this line). In the end I got things to work mostly (the cursor now only jumps after I hit return or occasionally if I use shift), using the following: So not all the commands worked for me-for example, there are no “HWE” kernels available for 19.04. I’m using 19.04, which isn’t a LTS version. the version that came out in spring 2016).
There are controls for this (including a “disable the touchpad while typing” command), but they didn’t seem to affect performance at all.ĭell has an advice page on fixing this that was developed for the 16.04 LTS Ubuntu (I.e. It made any kind of work with the touchpad next to impossible. Hitting a key would often (at random intervals) cause the cursor to relocate to wherever the pointer was in the screen. In my case I was having real trouble with the touchpad. Touchpads are notoriously jumpy things in Linux.
