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howto needed: re-enable touchpad from CLI

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http://forums.opensuse.org – 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? (Distributions)

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Submitted by Edward.H on 07/24/2010 – Made popular on 07/24/2010

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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?

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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

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