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Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
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laptop touchpad disable??
Is there a way to disable the touchpad in Slack 10 on laptop?
I'm using an external ps/2 3 button mouse all the time anyway. I didn't see anything in xorg.conf that referred to a touchpad. There's only one pointer device (a symbolic link to /dev/psaux).
There isn't an option for that in my laptop's setup.
Last edited by linuxhippy; 03-12-2005 at 07:15 PM.
The touchpad seems to be referred to as "mouse" in the xorg.config as well as any regular mouse - the one on my laptop appears in the config-file like this:
You could perhaps try and comment out (#) those lines and see if it disables the touchpad. Eventually it'll instead crash the computer when you try to run XServer, so make sure to backup your original xorg.config and know how to revert the changes you made on console...
Ok, I tinkered around with it a bit more and found a way that works. Basically #ing out that device was ok with my system, when I first tried that out yesterday it'd crash my computer, but then I didn't have any other mouse set up yet so I guess it just crashed because it didn't have any pointer at all. Or whatever
But now I have my xorg.config like this and it works fine, mouse complete with all buttons and scrollwheel works, touchpad not:
with different config files see the startx man page for details, so you can have one configuration that uses your external mouse and another that uses the touchpad. Nice way to test custom configs as well.
Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
Posts: 1,207
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artificialGekko, I cut & pasted your part of xorg.conf but got errors. I commented out lines to get my X session to work so I could get on the net. Touchpad and ps2 mouse still both work. Here's my input section of xorg.conf so you know that nothing will conflict:
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