The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[clintin at linuxmail.org]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr>
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 7:38 am
Subject: Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:27 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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.

You might also try what is written here:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disable-synaptics-touchpad-while-typing-in-ubuntu.html

Instructions are also supplied for completely disabling the touchpad.

Clint