How to disable touchpad?

[toad]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

Hm, the app I pointed you to, touchfreeze (also available from the universe repo) does not work on my Thinkpad T41. Back to disabling it in the BIOS

[changturkey]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

I can't even get into my BIOS, there is only "alternate booting".

[kjjjjshab]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

I can't even get into my BIOS, there is only "alternate booting".

Sorry to hear your problem was never resolved... what kind of ThinkPad to you own? How are you getting to this "alternate booting" menu? Did using the blue button do anything?

[ssri]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

to disable my touchpad, I usually go into konsole and type: sudo rmmod psmouse

to re-enable my touchpad, I type: sudo modprobe psmouse

Usually, I have to enter in the latter twice or more to get my touchpad up and running again..

[kjjjjshab]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

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[GreyGeek]

Re: How to disable touchpad?

I am running Karmic with the latest upgrades. Part of its default install is:

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

One utility it makes available is "synclient".

I saved the following script in my home account as "touchpad.sh" and gave it execute permission. It uses "synclient" to toggle the touchpad on and off.

#!/bin/bash
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off

# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')

# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
synclient touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
synclient touchpadoff=0
else
echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
exit 1
fi
exit 0

I added "touchpad.sh" to the list of scripts that are auto executed when I log into my KDE 4.3.1 desktop.

The touch pad is on by default after a boot. This script toggles it off. if I need to turn it on I can execute the script manually and it will toggle it back on. When I am done using it I can execute the script again, manually, and toggle the touch pad off.