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Feature request: add ability to block cursor movement as well as taps

Open milojennings opened this issue 7 years ago • 5 comments

Hi there, I just found your wonderful little utility, and tried it out for the first time. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have any effect on my system.

I assume it's not yet compatible with 10.12. I didn't see any other issues open, so I wasn't sure if anyone else had tested it. Just thought I'd let you know.

I can beta test for you if you'd like.

Thanks for putting this together. I find the trackpad wrist detection (or lack thereof) to be very irritating while I'm typing.

milojennings avatar Apr 04 '17 01:04 milojennings

Thanks for reaching out. What time interval are you using? Also, are you getting any messages in the Terminal window about taps ignored?

thesyntaxinator avatar Apr 04 '17 02:04 thesyntaxinator

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm running it with your recommended setting of 200ms using the following command: sudo ./TouchGuard -time 0.2

And as I'm writing this, I realize that I misunderstood the purpose of this script. I was expecting it to prevent cursor movement as well as prevent taps. I see now that it is blocking taps as it's supposed to.

Is there any way to prevent cursor movement as well by any chance?

milojennings avatar Apr 04 '17 03:04 milojennings

What do you mean by cursor movement? Do you see the cursor moving around as you type?

thesyntaxinator avatar Apr 05 '17 16:04 thesyntaxinator

@thesyntaxinator Yes, that is correct. The cursor moves while I'm typing.

milojennings avatar Apr 21 '17 09:04 milojennings

I see. I don't have the bandwidth to implement the above at present but feel free to open a PR if you have a solution

thesyntaxinator avatar Apr 28 '24 04:04 thesyntaxinator