Shut Off Touch Pad
Is there any way to shut off a laptop touch pad? It's right where my hands rest and brushing it does strange and wonderful things when I'm trying to type (and I use an external USB mouse).
I kind of know that you can select only a specific device in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but with the "new" way of doing things there isn't an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (and, oh, by the way, that all seems to work just fine) so... I'd rather not have to reinvent the entire system, just shut off that blasted thing when I don't want it (which is 99-44/100% of the time). The installation is stock Slackware 13.0 (not 64 bit yet), Dell Inspiron 17 (yeah, it's dual-core 64 bit but I'm gonna wait a while). |
You can disable it from the BIOS.
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Every laptop has a "fn + Fx" key to disable the touchpad.
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Danged if I can find it on the www now, but I installed synaptics via Robby Workman's synaptics-0.14.6 SlackBuild Script last year (2008-04-24). The synaptics package included syndaemon and synclient. In addition to all kinds of Touchpad Tuning, you can turn off the Touchpad via: Code:
synclient TouchpadOff=1 -- kjh |
Danged if I can find a function key that'll turn the thing off (have to find a keyboard map for where the thing is) but...
The synclient way? It's part of the system (wow, zowie). Run Code:
synclient TouchpadOff=1 All is well that ends. |
The way I do it is:
Code:
rmmod psmouse |
Code:
liberty $ cat /home/rworkman/.config/autostart/synclient.desktop |
Thanks Robby -- hadn't quite got that far yet and that makes it simple.
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