Turning off touchpad in Fedora-21?

[Richard Z]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:45:58AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> >> There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not what
> >> you are looking for? See the image[1].
> >> 
> >> [1] http://i.imgur.com/fuykmXo.png
> > 
> > These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants to
> > disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in the new
> > kcm_touchpad. :-(
> > 
> >         Kevin Kofler
> 
> Quite, thank you.
> The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show
> says "Turn off touchpad while typing".
> I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad,
> as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.

on my netbook I have it implemented as a hotkey using xinput, you could
also add it to your startup tasks. Unfortunately don't have the code
handy here but should be easy to google together.

Richard

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