Fedora Hardware :: Laptop - Disable The Touchpad Until Reboot
Apr 23, 2011
I have installed gpointing-device-settings. It does exactly what I want it to do, disable the touchpad, until I reboot (not sure about logging out/in) and the touchpad is again enabled. So the vicious circle continues and I disable it for the session. Back in the days of xorg.conf it was easy enough to disable but of course that file, and the option to disable from within that file no longer exists for me. When I use Debian I can modprobe -r psmouse. That was a perfect solution as the touchpad was never heard from again with regard to that distribution. Attempting to remove that module under Fedora 15 results in the following.
Code: [glenn@f15beta ~>$ sudo modprobe -r psmouse FATAL: Module psmouse is builtin Is this something that I can change? I assume that built-in means that it's built in to the kernel? How about this angle. When I use gpointing-device-settings to toggle the touchpad on/off there must be one or more files that are altered. How easy would it be to find out exactly what files are altered and could I possibly set the immutable flag on this file so that it never gets toggled back to enabled again? There is a function key on this laptop, F9, that looks like it toggles the touchpad but it doesn't work under Fedora 15. Never tried it in any other releases.
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Apr 16, 2011
I am trying to disable the touchpad and when I try to run synclient -l I get
synclient -l Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
My xorg.conf follows:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
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I also have an option in BIOS to disable touchpad when external mouse is plugged in, which I enable without any result.
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Mar 23, 2010
What can I do to disable ONLY the LEFT touchpad button on my laptop? Left Click sticks by itself randomly, this causes problems when using my USB mouse (such as permanent dragging, permanent highlighting, permanent inability to left click anything, the computer is pretty much dead to me unless I try to tab around), it also causes issues with the Tap to Click, and it also causes Ubuntu to not recognize my "Left Handed" mouse button set up after boot for ONLY the touchpad. On the USB mouse, buttons work swapped.
Current solution: Left Handed Button Swap. Touch pad to click. Right touchpad button to right click. Sometimes I use my USB (which does recognize the swap). This is the 3rd install of vanilla Ubuntu (tried it just in case). That's not the issue. This is a Dell Inspiron 6000. I want to just disable the left button on ONLY the touchpad, I don't want this to affect my USB mouse. I want to keep the right button touch pad working. And of course I want my mouse to work. But, actually, my ideal is to sacrifice the left button, use Tap to Click, and use the right mouse button for right clicking. If I can't save the right click, can I disable both buttons?
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Apr 17, 2011
I have an Asus K6LIC laptop. In Windows if I press function+F9, it toggles my touchpad on and off. I'm wondering if I can get this functionality in Ubuntu 10.10. All other function keys work, except for this one. The only thing I can find is to permanently disable the touchpad, which is not what I want to do.
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Jun 30, 2015
I have tried to use the extensions toggle-touchpad and touchpad-indicator that claim to be able to do this, but neither will load properly. They show up with a little exclamation-point-triangle in the "Tweaks" panel saying "Error loading extension". How to get Jessie gnome system succeeded in getting their touchpad disabled via a simpe toggle mechanism?
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Jan 30, 2011
I'm trying to disable my laptop's touchpad because its hard to type with it on.
However most of the websites I found say to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which no longer exists.
How can I disable my touchpad?
There is no touchpad tab in System -> Preferences -> Mouse
Computer: Sony VAIO
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Dec 14, 2009
I'm having a pretty annoying problem. I can't seem to disable clicking on my laptop's touchpad. I went into the Gnome mouse settings, but the Enable mouse clicks with touchpad option is checked and grayed out. I have also tried to edit my xorg.conf, but there is nothing in it! Lastly, I've tried to edit 10-synaptics.fdi file, but that didn't do much
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Oct 17, 2010
this issue has been bugging me for years. I want the same capability in Fedora that exists in most recent versions of Windows -- disable the touchpad on my laptop if an external mouse is plugged in. Note that my how-to is a little hardware-specific regarding the actual disabling of the touchpad; I'll discuss that more at the end of the guide.
So, here goes: For my OS (Fedora 13 x86_64) and hardware (Dell Precision M4500) - I needed a specific utility and three scripts. This Dell's trackpad and nipple-stick are seen as an 'internal' PS/2 mouse by Fedora, so I had to install 'xinput' to disable it.
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Apr 14, 2010
I have a lenovoY-410 laptop ,on which i tried to install Fedora11 , however my laptop's touchpad does not work for Fedora11 , however it worked well for Fedora10
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Feb 20, 2009
I want to get a software like synaptics in windows,it can easily disable and enable touchpad.in linux is there any?
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Jan 24, 2011
I running acer aspire 5742 64bits intel core i3 is there a way to disable the touchpad cause is bugging me.
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Apr 12, 2011
Ubuntu 10.10
I tend to hit my touchpad while typing, so I prefer to disable it. I had it disabled in 10.04, but after upgrading to 10.10 it doesn't seem to work anymore.
I also downloaded the g-pointing-devices & put a check in the Disable touchpad box. This worked for a little while, then the touchpad starts working again, with the box still checked.
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Jul 19, 2011
I'm running 11.4 gnome and need to be able to disable the touchpad on my laptop. I always use an external mouse.
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Jun 23, 2010
I've read through [URL] but I can't seem to disable my touchpad while typing (it seems to be extremely sensitive to touch).
I can't disable touchpad, else it will disable all X.org input
Code:
$ sudo aptitude purge xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Nov 30, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on Lenovo Thinkpad, and I have tree pointing devices:
- touchpad
- trackpoint
- mouse, that is connected only when I am home, so for around 50% of time.
I have downloaded a package "Pointing Devices" and tried to disable a touchpad, which annoys me. Sometimes new settings works, but each time I connect/disconnect mouse, the default settings (everything on) restores. It's even worse, because right now the touchpad works and annoys me, while it's written that it's disabled in "Pointing devices", so either the package is outdated, or it's a BUG.
How to permanently disable a touchpad?
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Feb 17, 2010
I'm on a new netbook using Ubuntu 9.10 and I cannot figure out how to disable tap-to-click on my touchpad. I figured it would be simple enough to use SHMConfig, however; every post I've seen says they have something similar to this in xorg.conf
Code: Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection Instead, I have this ...
Code: Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
End Section
I have tried simply changing the driver entry to "synaptics," however when I run SHMconfig it says the driver hasn't been loaded.
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May 10, 2010
I have laptop ASUS X51RL with Intel pentium dual core inside processor. As mentioned here:I tried to install i386 FC12 on it. When the instalation was completed, there was a message to reboot. So did I, and while the BIOS was still loading, of course, removed the DVD in order not to repeat the instalation. Fedora started loading with the three varioants of the blue color bars and suddenly on the screenappeared a long message finishing with the words: "kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt " and that was all - the system stopped untillo there and never loaded For the last 2 days this is about my 12th attempt to get linux. Before I had tried about over 6 times with ubuntu, finishing the same way after the first reboot, 1 time knoppix and 2 times Debian. Only debian succeeded to load succesfully after its instaltion was complete, but I didnt linke it and a friend of mine strongly recommended me FC12. So what am I supposed to do??? I guarentee, my hard disc is not corruted as I read 1 hundred times on google, I had benn running windows 7 before I started trying to get linux and everything was OK... the install DVD is also OK, I tested it in the same beginning of the instalation and the test was successfull.
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Jun 2, 2010
it stuck after loading. should got login window. instead it show me a blank page and a blinking courser i can only press ctrl+alt+del it will reboot my laptop n stuck after the loading process
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Nov 27, 2010
Since last Saturday (11-20) my touchpad enable/disable key stopped working.I don't make much use of the touchpad and it usually stays disabled most of the time so I can't be sure it is really on Saturday that I lost this functionality or maybe the day before (I'm positive it's not longer than that).Before that it worked flawlessly, now it's like a dead key (which is not broken by the way, tested on a live CD).In these past week I have been looking for quite some time for other users who might have experienced this problem after the update of two specific packages (console-data and keyboard-configuration) I had on the 20th and which made me think might have broken the key binding.Not finding anything at all and after having tried for said packages both newer versions from sid and previous known-to-have-worked-before versions from the install CD, I started thinking the problem was not there (I consequently restored the testing ones).
The days before this happened I tinkered a little bit with gpointing-device-settings and tpconfig (this last one was a simple tpconfig -i), but at this point I start thinking there might have been something else I've done, somewhere else I can't recall probably.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the touchpad still works flawlessly, I can enable/disable it through gconf (actually I made two handy shortcut to the "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled" value), so it is not an issue of making it work, just the toggle key which on my laptop is a dedicated one (no Fn modifier) and anyway all the other special keys still work fine.I checked gnome-keybinding-properties and there is no action for the touchpad there, but I don't know for sure if there was one before (and I haven't been able to add one). Anyway in gconf I noticed a key in "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/touchpad" has the value "XF86TouchpadToggle", not sure if that means the keybinding exists or what.
What more can I add? What I'm here to ask now is some guidance on figuring out what I might have done wrong considering what I was able to tell you, but mostly, considering what I wasn't able to tell you and am not even aware to have done.
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Jul 4, 2010
Is there any software out there that can disable the touchpad on your laptop? The one I use on another distro is QSynaptics. But quite honestly, as long as it disables it, I don't mind what software it is.
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Mar 22, 2010
I am able to get my touchpad to enable disable from the bash shell using
Code:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse with or without the "-r" to turn it on or off, respectively But I wanted to write a script to do this for me because "mouseon" and "mouseoff" is easier for me to remember and more convienient. But I am having some issues (I am a complete newb at scripting, so forgive my ignorance)
the script written is:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#enable/disable touchpad
sudo modprobe -r psmouse I have saved this script as "mouseoff" in usr/bin (echo $PATH told me this was a directory bash searches, even though it was not a directory and I had to create it with mkdir).
then I did Code: chmod 755 mouseoff However, when I try to run it, I get a "permission denied" error.Can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong?
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Jun 13, 2010
I don't know how many has had this problem, but I understand I am not the only onehe problem is that after using synclient to disable the touchpad in 10.04 it would enable itself, seemingly, at random.Well, what I found was that unchecking the "Disable touchpad while typing" feature in "System->Preferences->Mouse->Touchpad" will fix the problem.Apparently the system does not recognize that the user has deliberately disabled the touchpad. And so it will reenable it when the user is "done typing".
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Jun 20, 2010
I have this 17" Dell laptop, and the touchpad is huge. My family use it and when we're typing, we brush of this incredibly large touchpad and end up pumping characters into the middle of a prior paragraph.
They've reduced the size of the touchpad on the newer versions of this model, but I'm wondering is it possible to hack it somehow so the outer perimeter (say 1cm) is 'dead'?
Most configuration software available is of no use to me since I think it's not a synaptics mouse. (I don't have multitouch - that's why I think this)
This is really frustrating. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Code:
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Jul 8, 2010
i use ubuntu 10.04. Everything works great, however i can not figure out how to disable my touch-pad. Yet my touch-pad features works properly such as double tapping, triple tapping or scroll. I have tried everything at [URL] (most of them is for synaptic touchpad but mine is elantech) here is the mine X11
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
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Aug 13, 2010
I've installed Ubuntu 10.4 onto Eee Pc 1015PE.
The mouse touch pad is a pain when your typing.
Is it possible to Disable it whilst I'm typing.
(I saw a post somewhere but it somewhere else but it was not very newbee friendly.)
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Oct 29, 2010
I have HP DV6 laptop. when i disable the touchpad, the mouse clicks doesn't respond anymore! and i need to restart the laptop
This happen to me in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
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Feb 25, 2011
I love Xubuntu/XFCE4. How do I disable the freaking touchpad while I type, every time I even lightly hover my palm over it, it jumps the cursor all over the place.
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Apr 4, 2011
I'm having a few problems with my touchpad on my MBP 5,5. First off, even though I have selected "disable touchpad while typing" I still randomly click with my palms when I'm trying to type. Am I missing something here? Also is there any fix for the click and drag issues? Most of what I've read on the forum here is old and the apt-get for the packages mentioned gives me a "file unavailable" error. It's okay when I'm at home but I don't normally bring my bluetooth mouse with me everywhere. If only apple had left the mouse button on here...
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Oct 12, 2010
I login as root every time (its a closed system) and I am running it on a laptop. I want to disable the touch pad after typing for 4 seconds.I have tried adding this command:syndaemon -i 4 -dto rc.4, rc.local, rc.httpd, http.mysqld
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May 28, 2010
Looking for opinions on what is the best way to disable the touchpad on a Sony VAIO. I just installed Slack64 13.1 and love it...
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