switch off auto-selection of text (or what ever it is called ..)

[Owen Thomas]

Hmmm... okay... thanks Walt. I'll let you know how I get on...

Would you mind telling me/pointing me in the direction of how to assign
this script to a key press?

On 27 December 2017 at 14:09, walt <w7prb at comcast.net> wrote:

> Owen:
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5558 laptop computer.  I run Linux Mint 18
> exclusively. I use the following scripts to turn the touch pad on and off.
>
>
> To turn off:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #Turn Laptop Pad off
> #
> synclient touchpadoff=1
>
>
> To turn on:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #turn laptop pad on
> #
> synclient touchpadoff=0
>
>
> The last line can be run in a terminal also.  Hope that this helps.  I
> have long forgotten where I found the synclient command.
>
>   walt
>
> On 12/26/2017 02:14 PM, Owen Thomas wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell Latitude E5570, and I know well the frustrations of the
>> Dell touchpad. I had an HP once running Windows 8 (I think?), and I found
>> the feature where the touchpad could be disabled while one is typing to be
>> very useful. So far, I have not been able to find or enable the same
>> functionality in Dell that can be used in Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>
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