touchpad (solved)

[Anonymous]

i am an mx user trying out antix. i like it but i can’t find any way to turn off the touchpad. this is a deal-breaker for me. does any one know how to do it?

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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I don’t know if its installed at the moment, but try

synclient TouchpadOff=0

for off and

synclient TouchpadOff=1

for on

from the terminal.

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

[Forum Admin BitJam]

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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/

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dolphin_oracle wrote:

I don’t know if its installed at the moment, but try

synclient TouchpadOff=0

for off and

synclient TouchpadOff=1

for on

from the terminal.

It worked.
Many thanks.

[Member superluminal]

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Did it really work? I was just passing by and noticed TouchpadOff=1 should mean that the touchpad is off. i.e 1==True

Anonymous wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:

I don’t know if its installed at the moment, but try

synclient TouchpadOff=0

for off and

synclient TouchpadOff=1

for on

from the terminal.

It worked.
Many thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Did it really work? I was just passing by and noticed TouchpadOff=1 should mean that the touchpad is off. i.e 1==True

TouchpadOff=1 is the one that worked.

[Member partsman]

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Hello all 🙂
This is how I turned off touchpad tapping in AntiX-17
I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/synaptics.conf
Lines: 8,9,10

Option “TapButton1” “0”
Option “TapButton2” “0” # multitouch
Option “TapButton3” “0” # multitouch

changed them from “1” to “0”

That said ! Only work with root persist enabled ! 😉

Hope that help someone at some point ! 🙂

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[Forum Admin BitJam]

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partsman wrote:

That said ! Only work with root persist enabled

As root, edit the file /live/boot-dev/antiX/state/machine-state-files and add your file to the list. It will be saved on a machine by machine basis even with no persistence. If you would prefer it to be saved across all of your machines then add it to general-state-files instead.

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[Member partsman]

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@BitJam Ahh ! Yes ! My bad !
Still getting both sides of the brain in sync ! 🙂
Thanks ! 😉

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[Forum Admin BitJam]

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[Member partsman]

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BitJam: wrote

We do not expect perfect recall of tons of new information here. We are still learning how to best use all the tools.

Thanks BitJam !

Its nice to feel part of a community where we can feel free to speak and learn together “and from one another”
without being criticized for his/her ideas or way of thinking ! I have always believed that is what makes a
good distro/community ! You guys are doing a good thing here ! And Your efforts are much appreciated ! Thank You ! 😉

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[Member utu]

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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

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[Anonymous]

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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

Nice. Thanks.

[Member partsman]

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@ utu
@ 1E1E1E

Awesome guys ! Thanks for the info !
Amazing how may ways things can be done !
That is what the freedom of Linux and AntiX
Are all about ! 😉 Love it !

Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)

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