touchpad problem on 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[Mike McGinn]

On Friday 20 November 2009 16:12:30 John Abbott wrote:
> I have the same problem.  However when I disable touch pad while typing
> it resets itself.   I downloaded touchpad preferences and that resets
> itself.
> 
> I am unable to locate the configuration file you indicate.
> 
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21:51 +0100, Xandros Pilosa wrote:
> > Dne 20.11.2009 (pet) ob 13:38 -0700 je don fisher zapisal(a):
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Is
> > > there still a way to manually enable/disable the touchpad?
> >
> > At first look (I'm not using laptop right now) you can:
> >
> > System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> touchpad tab -> Disable touchpad while
> > typing
> >
> > or in gconf-editor look for the key:
> > /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/touchpad_enabled
> >
> > Regards
> 
I have good luck with synclient TouchpadOff=1

I have it set to run on ked startup.

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