how to disable touchpad on asus laptop running 11.10?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Pastor JW <rev.olson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:12:05 pm NoOp wrote:
>> On 12/01/2011 11:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> >   the touchpad on my asus G74S is so sensitive that when i'm typing,
>> >
>> > even a slight brush of the pad is recognized.  first impression is to
>> > simply disable it entirely and use an external mouse, but when i
>> > googled, i found this:
>> >
>> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880532
>> >
>> >   i like the idea of being able to say, simply disable the touchpad
>> >
>> > while i'm typing.  in any event, what is the *recommended* way to
>> > disable the touchpad?  is that gconftool invocation considered a
>> > reasonable approach?  thanks.
>
> I could never get it turned off in Ubuntu so I taped a credit card over it.


In my laptop I disable it through a laptop-specific shortcut. If this
doesn't work for you in a permanent way, you may try
Touchpad-Indicator:


https://launchpad.net/touchpad-indicator

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/touchpad-indicator-now-automatically.html



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