Search Results for 'disable touchpad'

[Member hudzik]

Hi caprea,
thanks for your hint – it solved my problem.

This is also very useful – great to know that.
“Search Forums” under “Register” on the right side of the forum-side shows some outcomes for disable touchpad

cheers 🙂

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

I see what you mean by the lower search box however on the foprum r/h side bar search box

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/disable+touchpad/

So I guess I am bit off kilter in my last post

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

The search bar at the top works however not.

Forum is too new and not enough threads yet. I think it just searches this forum and not google.

link

But

Link

Gets me better hits

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[Moderator caprea]

Hi, welcome to the forum.
synclient should be already installed on antix-full.
You can try
For turning the touchpad off
synclient TouchpadOff=1
for turning on
synclient TouchpadOff=0

Just a tip, without wanting to be admonitory,the “Search Forums” under “Register” on the right side of the forum-side shows some outcomes for disable touchpad.The search bar at the top works however not.

Hi,
I am trying to disable touchpad on my laptop while mouse is connected.
Can someone suggest any solution?

This does not work 🙁
http://xmodulo.com/how-to-disable-touchpad-on-debian-ubuntu-desktop.html

[Member malanrich]

If you’re on a laptop with a sensitive touchpad, your hand might be brushing the touchpad as you type. If that is the problem, you can disable the touchpad entirely or you can set a delay of a couple of seconds so that brushing it while typing doesn’t make the cursor jump. There are some good threads on this at the MX site (discussing what commands for delay work best and where to put them).

[Member mizpa]

That’s weird, I just used that same command on my dist-upgraded antix and it doesn’t work to disable the touchpad …. just downright weird!

so I installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics tried it again, and still didn’t work. What a bummer!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by mizpa.

[Member mizpa]

anticapitalista wrote:

Use the packageinstaller app in the menu or control centre to install latest firefox

I’ll give it a spin, Thanks, mizpa

UPPDATE: well, that went well, now after installing, the ‘package installer’ and the ‘done’ dialog box are froze up! So I guess the only cure is to reboot so I can install something else – to disable the touchpad. (a different thread)

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by mizpa.

[Member mizpa]

Dave wrote:

You can do this with synclient. I do not remember the options but it should be easy enough to review the help or man page after installing.

Then you can use xev to retrieve key codes and assign them to the command via your window managers key file as found in the control centre under desktop.

So what I think you’re saying is that I need to apt-get something called ‘synclient’ and also ‘xev’ so that I can disable the touchpad. I’ll search for those and get them installed.
Thanks, mizpa

How do I disable the Touchpad? it’s annoying as **** to be typing out something and all of a sudden it disappears or is moved somewhere else in the text. I end up with a bunch of FFE’s!

• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by mizpa.

[Member utu]

I added the two entries to the Control Center Start-up script
found at MainMenu>ControlCenter>Session>User…>startup
to tame my own typing difficulties:

# Uncomment to Disable touchpad
synclient TouchpadOff=1

# Uncomment to Disable caps-lock toggle
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by utu.

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[Forum Admin BitJam]

The synclient program is installed in antiX-17-full. If it doesn’t work for you then you can install xinput and use that to control the touchpad. I used xinput to enable and disable stuff on a 2-in-1 I was running antiX on.

Cool Tricks with Xinput Device
https://www.linux.org/threads/cool-tricks-with-xinput-device.10345/

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by BitJam.

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