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To make touchpad inactive ?

I'm using HP nx6310 series notebook .. I'm going to have new external usb mouse for my lap , can anyone help me to disable the touchpad facility
Is there any options in Ubuntu 9.04 to do it ??

I'm not sure if it is setup by default in Ubuntu, but if the Synaptics driver is set to allow SHMConfig, you can do it with synclient easily.

This turns it off:

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

This turns it on:

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

You shouldn't need any special privileges, so adding it to a launcher button on your panel should be trivial so you can easily toggle it. I added it to one of the special buttons on my laptop with an ACPI script.

EDIT: If you do not have SHMConfig enabled, this link should help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sy...hpad#shmconfig

Quote:

Originally Posted by elliott678 (Post 3709180)

I'm not sure if it is setup by default in Ubuntu, but if the Synaptics driver is set to allow SHMConfig, you can do it with synclient easily.

This turns it off:

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

This turns it on:

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

U the best buddy !!! Thanks for the help!!!