The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[chris]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 20:40 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> wrote:
>         On 05/09/2010 04:22 PM, Angus MacGyver wrote:
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>         > Sorry all, missed the first post.
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>         > What laptop is this ?
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>         Dell Inspron 1525.
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> That is so weird.  I've got the same model and turned the pad off so
> long ago I've forgotten how.  Drat.  I think it was just some
> configuration thing with a GUI.   I dual-boot to Winduhs where I set
> it to disable if there's any other pointing device -- a better option
> for me because I move around and lose things sometimes.
> 
> If I can remember where that setting was...
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
> 
System > preference> Mouse

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