Turning off touchpad in Fedora-21?

[bitlord]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:45:58 +0000
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> 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.
> 

Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off. 
For example on my T400 it works with Fn+F8, and it shows notification
that it is on/off. This can be a solution when available.