[clue-tech] laptops turn off touchpad

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 18:20 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> The only problem is the bloody touchpad. Whenever you're typing, the
> cursor wanders off, and you spend more time typing over what you've
> already keyed than typing new words. I've done some googling, but I
> haven't found a simple way to turn off the touchpad. Most of the hits
> involve screwing with xorg.conf. sidux follows the latest standard -
> no xorg.conf - xorg figures it all out at startup.

If it's a synaptics pad, try synclient to disable the touchpad.
Something like:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

See synclient, synaptics man pages.

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Michael J. Hammel                               
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