touchpad problem on 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[don fisher]

John Abbott wrote:
> Don,
> That did it for me.  But now will that be required each boot?  I would 
> reboot now but I'm downloading an ISO file for Edubuntu
> John
> 
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:03 -0700, don fisher wrote:
>> 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
>> > 
>> > 
>> Sorry, I am an xterm/cmd-line kind of user. There is a command called 
>> synclient TouchPadOff=1
>> synclient TouchPadOff=0;synclient MaxSpeed=0.5;synclient AccelFactor=.2
>>
I have the default set in my login profile. I think it comes up enabled 
by default.

Cheers