The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:23 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> I had previously disabled the touchpad system-wide by creating the
> following file:
> 
> 
> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi:
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>  <device>
>   <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
>    <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
>   </match>
>  </device>
> </deviceinfo
> 
> 
> 
> You may try that.


... if you have Ubuntu 9.10 or previous.





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