Comments on: Temporarily Disable Touchpad While Typing

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:34:56 +0000

I use this on my ACER AspireOne Netbook running Ubuntu 9.04 Remix and it works like a charm! Thank you for the small script. Will pass it on and give you Kudos where I go!

By: David Harvey

David Harvey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:41:36 +0000

My wife has an ASUS F3T laptop, she got a virus, wiped the hard drive, reloaded the drive, but deleted a program I had found somewhere to turn off the touchpad and use the mouse instead. While typing, if you inadvertently touch the touchpad, you mess up your message typed. How do I find this program again, or what file do I go into to turn it off permanently. Thanks. davidharvey13th@yahoo.com

By: Joe_Linux

Joe_Linux — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:22:25 +0000

Is it possible to create a Macro for this menu sequence?

By: ligae

ligae — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:02:17 +0000

On a Dell Latitude D630 with Intrepid 8.10, I use System > Preferences > Mouse, in the Touchpad tab, disable/enable synaptic touchpad.

By: SuD

SuD — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:20:33 +0000

I’d also check to disable keyboard and touchpad when closing laptop lid. I have an HP-Compaq nx7300 which has touchpad buttons too high, so when i close lid it presses both buttons at the same time, typically pasting whatever to a root console…

By: LoX

LoX — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:21:06 +0000

Worked like a charm for me… first try! Great for ooffice documents — I’ll never have the problem again.

By: With A Little Help From My Friends « Adventures In Computing

With A Little Help From My Friends « Adventures In Computing — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:16:09 +0000

[...] off” function key for the touch pad so I had to find something else. With the help of Christer Edwards I have a solution for this. You have to make sure that in the xorg.conf you have SHMConfig [...]

By: Ed Button

Ed Button — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:14:43 +0000

It works great on my ASUS Z60J (Fiesty).

Thanks!

By: philip

philip — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:29:41 +0000

try this software:http://www.kingzm.com/eng/files/download/MouseManager.zip
This software is designed for these people who use several mouse.
For example, a person uses notebook PC and installed USB mouse as well.
it can set the different work state for each mouse and quickly switch primary and secondary buttons .

By: JGJones

JGJones — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:07:53 +0000

It’ll be lovely if this option be put into the touchpad configuration program for Ubuntu – ie gsynaptic is mentioned -but no option to do that is given in there.

With the Gutsy Gibbons, I believe they’ve now got a mobile version of Ubuntu for laptops etc? If so…I pray they make it easier to newbies to do this

Lovely hack and made my life a zillion times easier!

Cheers