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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, 2 months ago by mizpa.
Dave
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.
Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
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, mizpasynclient apparently isn’t available, since a search in the package manager, as well as trying to get that package at a terminal is not available (cant find synclient.) I was able to download the document on it from the internet tho. So is there a fancy name for it other than synclient?
Dave
Both may be preinstalled I am not sure, I think synclient is part of the Synaptics xorg driver and xev part of x11 utilities…
Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
caprea
Did you try
For turning the touchpad off
synclient TouchpadOff=1
For turning on
synclient TouchpadOff=0syclient is part of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
- This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by caprea.
Did you try
For turning the touchpad off
synclient TouchpadOff=1Many Thanks caprea, that worked great! It’s a good thing that someone out there is looking out for us computer illiterates! :>)
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-synapticstried it again, and still didn’t work. What a bummer!- This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by mizpa.
caprea
Well, I dont know, here on dist-upgraded antix it is still working.
Which repos do you have enabled ? I saw you here on the forum also asking for sid.
inxi -r
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