Issue with touchpad.

HC Brugmans wrote:
> James Smith wrote:
> 
>>In Ubuntu it does not appear easy, if at all possible, to disable the
>>touchpad when a usb mouse is plugged in, nor to disable it manually.
>>This is, if nothing else, a nuisance and it would be nice if X could use
>>a software hack, just like it does for me in WinXP.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Please file a wishlist bug in bugzilla.ubuntu.com, so we can keep track
> of the issue.
> 

There is a manual solution, see synclient(1). Hooking that to the
hotplug-infrastructure should not be that hard.

-Peter