On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm trying to work out where I can disable the touchpad completely in > KDE. > > I can seem to do it when certain devices are plugged in, but there > doesn't > > seem to be a way to make it always off. I've got a trackpoint and the > > touchpad just exists to get in the way. > > If your system is using xinput: > > xinput will tell you about the I/O devices you have, giving you > numbers. > > xinput list followed by one of those device numbers will give > you lots of output, so you can be sure you've got the right one. > > xinput disable followed by that device number should, in fact, > disable it. > > Let us know if you aren't using xinput. I'm not seeing the touchpad listed. baloo@wojtek:~$ xinput ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=16 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PixArt USB Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=17 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ CHICONY USB Keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]