The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 14:51 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> On 05/09/2010 02:38 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 13:46 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> >    
> >> >  On 05/08/2010 07:23 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >>      
> >>> >  >  I just discovered the simplest way to disable Touchpad in Ubuntu,
> >>> >  >  system-wide:
> >>> >  >
> >>> >  >
> >>> >  >  Uninstall the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
> >>> >  >  
> >>>        
> >> >  
> >> >  I wish that worked! It's still active and can't find a way to kill it!
> >>      
> > After you removed package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, did you reboot?
> >    
> 
> Sure did.



Well it works for me pretty well. Make a search in Synaptic for the word
"touchpad" to see what other related software is installed.





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