touchpad problem on 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[don fisher]

John Abbott wrote:
> I did entered */synclient TouchPadOff=1/* and the touch pad stopped 
> moving the cursor.  But when I closed everything and then opened my mail 
> client the touch pad was again active.  I appears as though launching 
> any application enables the touch pad.  And now entering that line has 
> no effect whatsoever on the condition of the pad.  Short of welding a 
> plate over it I'm about to give up.
> 
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:03 -0700, don fisher wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> Thanks 
John,

You may have to put it in the .xinitrc file so that the environment 
knows. I am command line oriented (.fvwm2) and it works great there. 
Most windows come up in less than a second without a desktop.
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