The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/10/2010 09:27 AM, 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.
>    

No......10.4

Fred