Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?
On Sunday 28 February 2016 08:11:12 Haines Brown 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.
There is a confusing name clash, synaptic is a package manager, one of
the best IMNSHO but the touchpad is also a synaptic.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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