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. > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
