I know there are other questions about this issue, but I can't find the right tweak in order to fix it.
The touchpad still detects my palms while typing stuff. It's REALLY annoying, especially because it spoils my productivity on my brand new Dell XPS Gold Edition. It's a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install and I don't want to mess around trying scripts and stuff that would finally break the touchpad recognition.
I tried to use syndaemon as it looks like it's the best workaround for this bug:
syndaemon -i 0.5 -d
When I try it on the terminal, it seems to work as long as I don't log out from my session.
But if I put the command on my start-up programs utility, and I reboot, the cursor always freezes after a minute or two. So I must uncheck the command using my keyboard and I'm back to this very annoying palm detection stuff. Any solution?
Some info about my system:
greguti@greguti-XPS13-9333:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SYNAPTICS Synaptics Large Touch Screen id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
greguti@greguti-XPS13-9333:~$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep -i finger
Synaptics Finger (288): 25, 30, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (294): 282
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (295): 7
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (298): 1, 1
Best Answer
I couldn't follow this answer with My XPS 13, and Ubuntu 14.04.
But found a quick solution to disable touchpad while typing:
then run
Check: Enable Palm Detection and move range:Narrow to about 10% from beginning.