How to disable laptop touchpad

[Member dukester]

Please! TIA

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dukester

[Member dukester]

OFF = synclient TouchpadOff=1
ON = synclient TouchpadOff=0

You guys are SO helpful here! LOL
I should use Google more often!!!

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dukester

[Member skidoo]

thanks for following up to post the solution

[Member dukester]

You’re welcome! My pleasure! Having fun with antiX!!

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dukester

[Member Robin]

Hi dukester,
you might want to bind these commands to a button, to prevent you from typing them again and again.
See https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/simple-icewm-startup-example-with-programs-and-wifi/#post-43866
for details how you can manage this.

[Member seaken64]

Or, if you just want it disabled all the time just add the command string to your startup file.

seaken64

[Moderator caprea]

Or if you enjoy playing with even more options, like turning off the touchpad with simple commands like padoff, padon
or just turning it off automatically only while typing on the keyboard

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/easy-way-to-disable-touchpad/

[Member dukester]

Thanks everybody for the excellent tips!!

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dukester

[Member ok-ok]

Where can one locate this synclient?

[Moderator caprea]

synclient is part of the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which should be installed by default.
It’s installed under /usr/bin/synclient

[Member ok-ok]

Yes,but the bin files are binary and are un-editable.Obviously I want alter the settings can some tell me where they are and how

[Member ok-ok]

SOLVED!
Thanks for your help,I had overlooked the #55967 comment; furthermore I have given a .bash_aliases alternative
in #56946

[Member afghan]

ok-ok wrote:

Yes,but the bin files are binary and are un-editable.Obviously I want alter the settings can some tell me where they are and how

Perhaps if you elaborate more on what exactly it is you want to do, maybe then somebody can help you.

In addition to binding the synclient command to some key combo, I put in a set of udev rules to deactivate the touchpad automatically whenever I plug in a mouse, and activates it when I remove the mouse. I create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/20-touchpad-mouse.rules with the following contents:

# Deactivate Touchpad (when Mouse is connected)
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0.0", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/afghan/.Xauthority", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"

# Activate Touchpad (when Mouse is removed)
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0.0", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/afghan/.Xauthority", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0"

`
Modify it to suit your environment, especially your home directory.

I hope this helps.

• This reply was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by afghan.

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