For synaptics touchpads there is a utility called syndaemon that will
turn off the touchpad while you are typing.

It is quite useful on laptops. You can configure the timeouts too.

Basically you have to wait a half-second after the last key press for
the touchpad to begin generating events.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Mike Cherba <[email protected]> wrote:
> To turn off the touchpad you have to go into the bios and find the
> touchpad device then disable it.  That is the cleanest way.
>                        -Mike
>
>
> "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart
> as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." -Bernard
> Avashi
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:28 -0700, Allen Brown wrote:
>> I don't know how to do that.
>
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