synaptics touchpad on HP Lapto

[Martin Webster]

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:23 +1200, chris wrote:

> Can anyone please advise me how to turn off this touch-pad?

From the terminal type synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn off and synclient
TouchpadOff=0 to turn back on again.

man synclient

NAME
       synclient - commandline utility to query and modify Synaptics
driver options.


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