Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:42:11 +0300
Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
>wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> As best as I can make out from the x250 manual, there's no way to
>> disable the touchpad. I don't know why removing synaptic disabled the
>> touchpad. But doing so did no harm and I'm not sure why a package
>> manager is useful.
Removing synaptic touchpad manager does not remove a package manager.
What used to be called synaptics-touchpad is now called
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which is Synaptics Touchpad driver.
>
>So you don't use apt then?
>
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