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How To Auto-Disable The Touchpad When The Mouse Is Plugged In (Fedora 13)

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http://howtoforge.com – How To Auto-Disable The Touchpad When The Mouse Is Plugged In (Fedora 13) Hello all, hopefully this brief how-to will help others, this issue has been bugging me for years. I want the same capability in Fedora that exists in most recent versions of Windows -- disable the touchpad on my laptop if an external mouse is plugged in.  Note that my how-to is a little hardware-specific regarding the actual disabling of the touchpad; I'll discuss that more at the end of the guide. (HowTos)

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[ubuntu] Using Touchpad-Indicator 46 weeks 22 hours ago

Hello all.

I am using Touchpad-Indicator to disable the touchpad when an external USB mouse is plugged in and it works fine for that.

But when the external mouse is not plugged in, I occasionally navigate (mainly in Dolphin which ignores my back/forward buttons of the mouse) with the keyboard, ie alt+left/up, etc and that makes the Touchpad-Indicator to disable the touchpad and the only way

I hate the touchpad on this laptop and use a wireless mouse at all times, but I don't dare disable the touchpad for fear of having forgotten to pack the mouse, dead mouse battery or whatever.

If I were to disable the touchpad (very easy in KDE 4.4.4) could I re-enable it from CLI in an emergency?

thanx

Hi all!Is there any chance to automatically disable the touchpad when i plug in my mouse? is it possible with a udev rule?i know there's an indicator plugin for gnome, but i'm using kde/i3/openbox.best regards!

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2012-09-27T08:32:15Z

Hello. I'm having a pretty annoying problem. I can't seem to disable clicking on my laptop's touchpad. I went into the Gnome mouse settings, but the Enable mouse clicks with touchpad option is checked and grayed out. I have also tried to edit my xorg.conf, but there is nothing in it! Lastly, I've tried to edit 10-synaptics.fdi file, but that didn't do much.

Yeah, this doesn't work for me. I'm 100% I did everything correct. I went over everything a lot of times. It doesn't work.The scrip works. If I click it. So clearly, lsusb works, the script works, the touchpad gets disabled if I have my mouse in and it doesn't if I  don't.The problem is that it's not automatic.

There already exists a how-to for disabling the touchpad when a USB mouse is plugged in during boot by rhowaldt.This doesn't work, though, when the mouse is plugged in after starting X, and the touchpad stays off after unplugging the mouse.For toggling to work, you have to create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/01-touchpad.rules with following content:ACTION=="add", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=

I prefer a mouse and dislike touchpad, so I'd like to disable the touchpad on this laptop, but I need to be able to re-enable it if the mouse is unavailable (dead battery, forgot to pack it or whatever).

I can easily disable the touchpad in KDE, but would need to know a simple way to re-enable it from CLI if needed. Does anyone kow a simple command to do so?

This simple and brief tutorial is going to show Ubuntu beginners how to disable touchpad tap to click. To get started, go to top right corner system menu and click on System Settings.

Click on Mouse and Touchpad in System Settings window.

Now go to Touchpad tab, and you can see the checkbox before “Enable mouse clicks with touchpad”.

Just uncheck the checkbox to disable touchpad tap

Unable to disable touchpad 3 years 23 weeks ago

Am running OpenSuSE 11.1 / KDE 3.5 on an Acer Aspire 4730Z. Yast Hardware Info reports touchpad as ALPS/PS2 ALPS Glidepoint. Yast/Hardware/Mouse Model displays info for 4 mice. Mice 2 and 3 are the ALPS Glidepoint. When I uncheck the "Activate this pointer" box, the touchpad continues working. The BIOS has no option for disabling the touchpad.