Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate
> > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the pointer
> > > is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in debian8, but
> > > maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have to live/deal with it.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Bernd
> >
> > My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I couldn't
> > help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply removed the
> > synaptic package and have had peace ever since.
>
> Is there not a Fn+Key combination to activate/deactivate the touchpad
> minus the hassle?
There is a command "synclient" which allows, among other things to
switch on/off a synaptics touchpad.
I know I've seen some use it to disable the touchpad when any key
was pressed, to re-enable it . Here's a link (a program called
syndaemon does the trick):
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Disable_trackpad_while_typing>
Disclaimer: I haven't tried it.
regards
- -- t
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