Disable laptop touchpad

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 schrieb Neil Winchurst:
> Mike McGinn wrote:
> > On Monday 01 February 2010 10:57:34 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> >> There usually is an option in the BIOS to enable or disable the
> >> touchpad. Have you checked there?
> >> 
> >> / Jonas
> > 
> > This works for me:
> > synclient TouchpadOff=1
> 
> Well, I have finally managed to get SHMConfig enabled. Now your
> idea works. The touchpad is disabled. Hooray.
> 
> So now, two questions.
> 
> 1 How do I re-enable it please?
> 
> 2 Do I have to run this every time to disable it?
> 
> Thanks for your help

re-enable: TouchpadOff=0 :-P

I've written a little script which I call through a keyboard 
shortcut:

#!/bin/bash
state=$(synclient -l | grep -i 'TouchpadOff')
state=${state: -1}
case ${state} in
  '1') synclient 'TouchpadOff=0';;
  *)   synclient 'TouchpadOff=1';;
esac

It's quick'n'dirty, but does the job...

  --Reinhold