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j@s0n

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Registered: 2020-08-15

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[Solved] How do I prevent stray touchpad inputs on Sway?

I'm running sway 1:1.11-1 and wlroots-asan-git 0.20.0.r7640.879243e3-1. I constantly get these stray inputs from my touchpad that select text or activate a different window, etc. It's incredibly annoying. How can I disabled this in sway? In the past with X, I've been able to do it fairly easily, but nothing I've tried with sway works.

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j@s0n

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Registered: 2020-08-15

Posts: 58

Re: [Solved] How do I prevent stray touchpad inputs on Sway?

For anyone who finds this through a search:
libinput and sway have built in disable while typing settings. But libinput only uses input from physical keyboards to disable the touchpad. I'm using keyd to remap the copilot key into control, so I have a keyd virtual keyboard. I had to change keyd to use passthrough mode.