Turn off touchpad

Often on a laptop you can be typing and find that your insertion point has moved to a place in the text that you did not want it to be in, creating a problem that you have to go in and correct.

The best solution is to set your system to disable the touchpad while you are typing.

To do this:

Go to the menu and select preferences. Then open "mouse and touchpad" section.

Select the touchpad tab and move the slider to the "On" position to "Disable touchpad while typing".

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If, for some reason this does not work properly on your system, there are a couple of alternative methods available. you can check them out here: Disable touchpad while typing