How to get the trackpad to ignore touches while typing
Do you get frustrated with how the slightest touch of the palm of your hand or thumb on the trackpad causes the text cursor to jump to a different position when you’re typing? I have and it’s been bothering me for some time.
Here’s how I solved this problem. I turned off “Tap to click” in the Trackpad Settings. Now when I’m typing and my palm or thumb accidentally touches the trackpad the text cursor doesn’t jump to a different position. I’m guessing this setting is on by default because I don’t recall having ever turned it on.
When I’m not typing, I like having “Tap to click” turned on. Since it’s not convenient to go into Trackpad Setting to turn it on and off all the time I looked for an AppleScript that I could use to toggle it on and off.
I found this one and it works fine.
Credit: Wojtek Witkowski on Github
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
delay 1
click the menu item "Trackpad" of the menu "View" of menu bar 1
delay 1
click the radio button "Point & Click" of the first tab group of window "Trackpad"
click checkbox 3 of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences"
quit
end tell
I’m using this script in Keyboard Maestro with the hotkey ⌘+⌥+9 to toggle the setting on and off. This will also work with an Alfred Workflow.