trying to disable touchpad in ~/.profile

[Liam Proven]

On 25 September 2017 at 13:39, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> I'm running a current Ubuntu-MATE system.  This command
>
> xinput --set-prop 13 'Device Enabled' 0
>
> works from the terminal to disable the touchpad, but it doesn't do
> anything when I put it in ~/.profile, which I expected to be run while
> logging in.  Where do I need to put that command for that to happen?

Depends what model touchpad hardware.

If, for example, it's a Synaptics one, then the Synaptics driver
includes functionality to automatically disable while typing or
disable when a mouse is connected.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Disable_touchpad_on_mouse_detection

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