trying to disable touchpad in ~/.profile

[Adam Funk]

On 2017-09-28, Liam Proven wrote:

> 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

I know some do, but this one doesn't --- if it did, I wouldn't be
trying to disable it, because I almost use a mouse!  (I'm a bit of a
klutz around the touchpad.)