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
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.
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.
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
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.
I'm trying to re-enable the synaptics touchpad on my laptop after disabling several months ago... And I can't remember which method I used to disable it.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop. How do you disable the touchpad completely? I've been to the mouse options and saw the disable while typing and so forth. I have a mouse I use and hate the touchpad. How can I turn it off completely?
Hello,
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 (Gateway NV53u Laptop), with no problems except that I have lost the ability to scroll with my touchpad on my laptop.
Running xinput list shows that there is a PS/2 Mouse and AlpsPS/2 ALPS Glidepoint. Also, going through the Mouse and Pointer Device options, I see touchpad options, which I can fiddle with, but have no visible change.
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