Hello David, On 07/05/18 05:55, David T-G wrote:
Nick, et al --
...and then Nick LeRoy said... % ... % Alternately, you can disable it in KDE (settings->System % Settings->Input Devices), probably in Gnome or whatever desktop you're % using, as well, but I've no personal experience there.
Hmmm... Looks like my Leap 42.3 system is using Plasma, and System doesn't have an "Input Devices" or similar. Dang.
Start by listing your X input devices with: $ xinput list On my Lenovo T530, this gives me the following output: ---------------------<cut>----------------------- pan@kermit:~> xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Laser Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] ---------------------<cut>----------------------- Then, you should create a script (its name doesn't matter -- I called it "disable_touchpad") below ~/.kde4/Autostart/ with a contents similar to the following: ---------------------<cut>----------------------- #!/bin/sh # Disable Synaptics Touchpad xinput disable 12 ---------------------<cut>----------------------- I'm on OpenSUSE 13.2 -- you may need to adapt the paths on a more recent version of the distro. HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com