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

[Owen Thomas]

Ooo... that worked... just need to know how to assign it to a keystroke in
Ubuntu...


On 27 December 2017 at 14:25, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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