On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 17:09, Verner Kjærsgaard <vk@os-academy.dk> wrote:
Greetings all, I just recently purchased 2 new Toshiba laptops and am having a difficult time disabling the Touch Pad. If it is a synaptic pad, there is a thing you can run that disables it when there is a USB mouse plugged in. In KDE I have an icon in the system tray to control this. It is on my laptop at home, so I will have to wait to tell you which package it is.
If it is not a synaptic pad, then I do not know what you can do. It you never want it, perhaps it could be disabled in the bios?
in my .bashrc I have a line that says..
synclient TouchpadOff=1
In usr/bin I have a binary named synclient...does this help?
Okay, I have tried that technique for the synaptics touchpads and it did not work. I am fairly confident that it is not a synaptics model.
However, I cannot figure out what the model is.
Thanks for your responses so far, I really appreciate it.
- does (as root)
hwinfo | grep -i -B10 -A10 touch
help with useable info? Instead of 'touch', try pad or something you can think of... Alternatively, do 'hwinfo' alone and start reading :-)
Or you can install Synaptiks (it's in the openSUSE community repos) and use that to control your touchpad - things like turn off the touchpad all the time, or off when you type, or off when a mouse is plugged in. it's a really handy little app. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org