On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > Hello, > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate > > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer > > > is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but > > > maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have to live/deal with it. > > > > > > thanks > > > Bernd > > > > My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I couldn't > > help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply removed the > > synaptic package and have had peace ever since. > > Is there not a Fn+Key combination to activate/deactivate the touchpad > minus the hassle?
As best as I can make out from the x250 manual, there's no way to disable the touchpad. I don't know why removing synaptic disabled the touchpad. But doing so did no harm and I'm not sure why a package manager is useful.