touchpad disable – no way ?

[Member rolfarius]

I can’t find a solution to disable the touchpad, which is really necessary.

Have tried to install the touchpad-indicator which was a god tool for me long ago.
It is in the atareao repos , but when I do ‘sudo apt-get repository ppa:atareao/atareao’
I get the ‘invalid operation repository’ – ‘Ungülige Operation repository’ (German).

Any way to disable the touchpad is fine even total.
Thanks.

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[Member ex_Koo]

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I just turn the touchpad off in the bios and only use the trackpoint that on Lenovo Thinkpads.

[Member Xecure]

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Depends on your driver.

Generally, try this:
TURN OFF
synclient TouchpadOff=1
TURN ON
synclient TouchpadOff=0

I would add a key combination for your window manager so that you can set it on/off when ever you like. (Windows + T or whatever you prefere, to toggle on/off)
If you want it off from boot, add that command to $HOME/.desktops-session/startup
synclient TouchpadOff=1

If it doesn’t work, we will have to figure out what is the driver your touchpad uses.

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[Moderator caprea]

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Hm, what about the touchpad-indicator from sister-distro MX-linux.
You can download it from here
http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/t/touchpad-indicator/
It’s installable without problems here.

[Member rolfarius]

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Wow, now I have lot of optios, thanks. I did allready Koo’s:

Thanks @Koo. Thats the most symple, most reliable solution. I found ‘internal pointer device’ in my Fujits-Siemens Lifebook.

If you want it off from boot, add that command to $HOME/.desktops-session/startup

@Xecure I guess synclient xxx is a command?
Update : Yes , but I get :
Couldn’t find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded? Not bad, I content for now with Bios switch. Then its total quiet 🙂

And thanks@ caprea, I will try this later.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by rolfarius.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by rolfarius.
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[Member rolfarius]

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@caprea I Allways wonder how to install the files which are in tar.xz file like touchpad-indicator_1.1.0-1mx19+1.debian.tar.xz

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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The program synclient is in the usr bin directory.

Personally I just write a short script to disable the touchpad when I have a USB mouse.

Check the documentation for the tool.

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[Moderator caprea]

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For antiX19 it’s the touchpad-indicator_1.1.0-1mx19+1_all.deb

and for antiX17 touchpad-indicator_1.1.0-1mx17+1_all.deb

deb-files are easy to install with gdebi or dpkg-command

[Member afghan]

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I configured some udev rules to automatically detect when you’ve plugged in or remove a USB mouse, thus deactivating and activating the touchpad. I found it irritating that my palm moves the cursor especially when I’m typing a long document.

I create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/20-touchpad-mouse.rules with the contents:

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

You may have to edit the rule number depending on what other rules you have in your system, and also change your home location in the Xauthority entry.

I also have what @masinick suggested and have some scripts to turn on and off touchpad manually in my ~/bin/ directory.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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@afghan:

I like the idea that you shared too and I will try it out. Thanks!

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[Member rolfarius]

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Something very amazing now:
Since I have disabled the touchpad in Bios the antix system boot time is much reduced.
From 1,5min to 30sec.
Also when I change the Themes (in Main menu) the new Theme appears much faster. Before there was a delay of about a view seconds, now immediately.

Is that possible because of that..?

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