Disable touchpad

[mar.ste]

My touchpad sometime interfere with my writings (probably because of me touching it inadvertedly) so I want to disable it.

I found this nice setting for Ubuntu: http://ubuntuguide.net/disable-touchpad-tap-to-click-in-ubuntu-12-04-12-10, but in Lubuntu the setting do not contains something like this in keyboard and mouse section.

There is a way to do it?

(I'm on 19.10)

Thank you

[CelticWarrior]

Different Desktop Environments deal differently with input devices and may have different settings. The setting you mentioned seems to be specific to Unity. I couldn't find anything similar in the current Ubuntu 19.10 (Gnome). It may never have been in Lubuntu.

You can install a third-party software that includes among others the "disable touchpad when typing" called touchpad-indicator that resides in the system tray:


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt update
sudo apt install touchpad-indicator

Open it from the Accessories menu, right-click the icon and select Preferences. In the Actions tab you can enable the required feature (cf. attached image)

[gdesilva]

This also may be useful...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/844151/enable-disable-touchpad

[mar.ste]

This also may be useful...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/844151/enable-disable-touchpad

Yes, this was useful!

And I also understood the problem with the other solution: my touchpad is recognized as a "keyboard mouse" (so other touchpad solutions seems not working)!


$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB 2.0 Camera: USB 2.0 Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD System Control id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD Wireless Radio Control id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD Consumer Control id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ bytcr-rt5651 Headset id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Intel HID events id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ gpio-keys id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]