Public bug reported: Binary package hint: touchfreeze
I tried to completely disable the touchpad using the tray icon sub-menu, but it did not work. After doing some research, I found that it can be easily done in karmic doing the following: ($ = command line, i.e. gnome-terminal, Accesories → Terminal) $ xinput list <Look for your touchpad> $ xinput set-int-prop "<the name of your touchpad>" "Device Enabled" 8 0 In my case $ xinput list [...] "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" id=8 [XExtensionPointer] Type is TOUCHPAD Num_buttons is 12 Num_axes is 2 [...] $ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 0 To reenable: $ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 1 (also see: $ man synaptics https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Input%20Configuration%20with%20HAL https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#hal http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=271052&highlight=disable+touchpad+while+typing) ** Affects: touchfreeze (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- does not disable touchpad in vaio vgn-n330fh karmic i386 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501181 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs