Re: momentarily disabling synaptic touchpad

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 09/19/2011 04:28 PM, William Shu wrote: Hi, I have SL 6.0 installed on a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB drive, which I use on various laptops (and desktops). The touchpad is so sensitive on some machines and I would like to disable it. At the same time, the attached mouse seems to be selectively responsive, notably its left button. Looking through the docs etc, a synaptics input driver has been installed, but the corresponding xorg.conf file is not in place for me to modify. (From a separate thread on nVidia, creating this file is NOT automatic in SL 6.)   Hi William, This is probably not exactly what you wanted.  But, anyway... I have a sweet little old lady (70+) on FC15 that the slide pad drives her crazy.  She is constantly putting her had down on it when she types. She prefers to use her USB attached mouse.  So I wrote the following script for her.  I don't remember where I put it though.  Maybe her rc.local. HTH, -T #!/bin/bash #Disable the [annoying] Slide Pad mouse #DeviceStr="`xinput list | grep -i touchpad | awk '{print $6}'`" #DeviceID="`echo $DeviceStr | sed -e 's/id=//'`" DeviceID="`xinput list | grep -i touchpad | awk -F "id=" '{print $2}'`" if [ -z "$DeviceID" ]; then    echo "DeviceID failed to resolve.  There is something wrong."    echo "Cowardly exiting.  Bummer, dude ..."    echo ""    exit 1 fi xinput set-prop $DeviceID "Device Enabled" 0 echo "touchpad mouse on device id $DeviceID has been disabled" echo ""