On Sunday 06 July 2008 09:56:08 am Tyrion wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: > > Hola Gamaral, KPLUG, > > > > Is there any way to turn off the touch pad on a laptop? > > > > I use a small wireless mouse. The touch pad drives me nuts. > > I cannot avoid hitting it at random times while typing ... > > > > This is a show stopper for me. I use KDE on my desk based > > machine but I simply cannot use it on my laptop without > > turning off the touchpad. GNOME has a dialog that lets me > > turn the touchpad off, but so far I cannot find anything in > > KDE that will do it. > > > > I would be happy with a command line fix. > > > > Anybody (KPLUG) know how to do this? > > > > BobLQ > > <smartass response> Use Gnome? </smartass response> > > Actually, I'd be interested in what people have to say on this as well. > Mine has a button that disables the touchpad (such a nice feature) but > once in a while the pad resets and I lose the scrolling abilities. I > figure if someone here knows where to point Bob for a CLI solution, it > might help me figure my problem out as well. > > Tyrion
http://digitalgraphy.wordpress.com/2007/11/17/how-to-disable-touchpad-on-linux/ Haven't used it but there is a script to touchpad on / touchpad off cheers- C. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
