Both issues are resolved by disabling the option to "disable touchpad while typing", which makes me think that these 2 problems are inherently related. Perhaps when the 2 "syndameon" processes go out of sync, one of them starts eating up keystrokes thinking that the touch pad is in use?
I'm affected by this bug, I'm also affected by this other one: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ lightdm/ +bug/8684001.
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Running 11.10 on an HP Pavilion dm1 laptop with synaptics touchpad.
Both issues are resolved by disabling the option to "disable touchpad while typing", which makes me think that these 2 problems are inherently related. Perhaps when the 2 "syndameon" processes go out of sync, one of them starts eating up keystrokes thinking that the touch pad is in use?