On 07/29/16 07:40, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 29/07/16 11:15, thomas cameron wrote:
I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't appear to be there any more.
How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad?
I asked a similar question on this list, long ago, and was advised that from the command line you can do
synclient TouchpadOff=1
and that worked for me. (Use "=0" to switch it back on again.)
I created my own panel icon to effect these commands via point and click.
Note that I am using an antediluvian release of Fedora (and an equally old Mint desktop) so what I say above may be, uh, off the beam.
HTH, but.
FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise.