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drfox
October 8th, 2015, 10:19 PM
In XFCE/Xubuntu, it is possible to turn off the touchpad and just have the pointer and touchpad buttons work on a ThinkPad.
Is it somehow possible to do the same with Gnome 3.16 or 3.18?
Thanks, Larry
ajgreeny
October 8th, 2015, 11:32 PM
Try command
synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn it off and
synclient TouchpadOff=0to turn it on again.

The command synclient can do a lot more than that so see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
drfox
October 9th, 2015, 04:02 AM
Try command
synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn it off and
synclient TouchpadOff=0to turn it on again.

The command synclient can do a lot more than that so see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

Great information, thanks very much!
cloud95728
October 18th, 2015, 07:04 PM
go into the bios for that
vasa1
October 19th, 2015, 02:39 AM
go into the bios for that
Why? ajgreeny has provided an answer. OP is okay with it. So why are you suggesting going into the BIOS?