Turn off touchpad on ThinkPad?

**drfox** · October 8th, 2015

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

Try command

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

to turn it off and

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

to 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

Originally Posted by ajgreeny

Try command

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

to turn it off and

Code:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

to 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

go into the bios for that

**vasa1** · October 19th, 2015

Originally Posted by cloud95728

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?

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