Disabling touchpad on laptop

[Dotan Cohen]

On 23/01/07, Marcelo Magno T. Sales <marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br> wrote:
> > Thanks. I installed ksynaptics via yum, but how can I access it?
> > Typing ksynaptics at the command line gives me a "command not found"
> > error, and I don't see it anywhere in Kcontrol.
>
> I don't have my notebook with me right now, but it's in KControl, under
> Peripherals, I think. Ksynaptics is great, it can even disable the touchpad
> automatically when you start typing and reenable it back right after you
> stop. It also may be added to the systray so you can easily enable or disable
> the touchpad manually if you want to.

Thanks. After updating xorg.conf as Mathew suggested Ksynaptics works fine.

Dotan Cohen

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