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If things don’t improve, this StarLite will likely be the last Linux device I get.
Not asking for much, just:
- Battery life to at least match my ten-year-old iPad. (I’d be happy with something lasted more than two-
(sorry, cursor just jumped while typing that – see point 2, below)
-three hours.
- Trackpad that disables while typing so I can, well, type.
Basically, just a machine that gets the basics right.
(Really - sorry cursor jumped - want to love this machine. Just can’t.)
@aral Buy without an OS and stick your own Linux distro on it. I'm afraid that Star Labs has declined in product, IMHO.
@linuxgnome I did :) (Although StarLabs installs a wide range of operating systems, to their credit.) This is a firmware and/or hardware issue with the magnetic keyboar, ju- oops, cursor just jumped while I was writing the apology for almost accidentally closing this reply – d – sorry –
*sigh*
While you wait for the trackpad issue to be resolved, am I right to assume you can mitigate the problem by adjusting trackpad sensitivity?
@linuxgnome
@bitnik @linuxgnome Hmm, actually, I’m wondering if it’s only an issue when tap-to-click is enabled. (I believe so.)
@aral
According to this post https://community.frame.work/t/solved-disable-touchpad-while-typing-ubuntu-linux/26477/6
touchpad is auto disabled while typing by default in Ubuntu 22.04 (and newer presumably) I don't know what flavour distro you are using but it's a pretty popular query/request but I'm not seeing a lot of extensions/apps etc to manage this behaviour (messing with lib configs yes, gui not so much)
@bitnik @linuxgnome
@acesabe @bitnik @linuxgnome Yeah, it’s set as disabled in GNOME for me under Fedora but that doesn’t disable tap-to-click.
@aral
Have you checked the gconf setting for this or maybe just try the following?
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing true
From:
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-automatically-disable-touchpad-when-typing-in-ubuntu/