I prefer a mouse and dislike touchpad, so I’d like to disable the touchpad on this laptop, but I need to be able to re-enable it if the mouse is unavailable (dead battery, forgot to pack it or whatever).
I can easily disable the touchpad in KDE, but would need to know a simple way to re-enable it from CLI if needed. Does anyone kow a simple command to do so?
asking twice won’t get you an answer any faster than once would.
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Sorry, but I initially had absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. You see my DSL connecton went down due to a power failure just at the very moment I tried to post the first request. When the power came back up and my connection finally re-synch’d 45 minutes later (the joys of life on a small island) I checked the forum and did not see my first post, so I reposted.
Now here’s where it gets interesting and a little bizzare. Until much later I could only see the second post at Laptop. The first one never showed up until long after the second one had been posted and displayed. I concede that that makes no sense whatsoever, but it is what it is.
So, the bottom line: I apologize for the double post.
From the command line, first enter
synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff
If you get an output similar to:
TouchpadOff = 0
then your touchpad supports synclient and the TouchpadOff feature…
Then entering
synclient TouchpadOff=1
disables the touchpad
and
synclient TouchpadOff=0
enables back the touchpad.
caprus wrote:
> So, the bottom line: I apologize for the double post.
having heard the story, i’m sorry i mentioned it…apology not
required (more patience here is!)…
sorry, i can’t address your touchpad problem, hopefully the others can…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
success! thanx
Note: The method offered by Swerdna at howto: re-enable touchpad from cli works well too.