Turn off touchpad

[Jarno Suni]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Sandahl * <sandahlb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really like Xubuntu,  but  there any plans to include an option to turn
> off the touchpad ?  So far the only way I am able to turn it off on my
> laptop is by typing sudo rmmod psmouse into a terminal and it becomes
> tiresome to have to do it twice a day between transport from work to home. I
> use Ubuntu on my other unit and it has the option and it would be great to
> have it on my Xubuntu laptop also

You can use syndaemon or gsynaptics or gsynaptics-init. They do not need sudo.

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