Disable laptop touchpad

[Mike McGinn]

On Monday 01 February 2010 12:30:57 Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 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
> 
> Neil
> 
Happy to help.
You reenable it with "synclient TouchpadOff=0"
Since I use KDE, I have "synclient TouchpadOff=1" set to run at KDE startup 
when I log in.

Mike
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