How do I disable my touchpad on each reboot?

[AshleyQuick]

The touchpad device is 12.

[kerry_s]

just turn it off in settings-> devices-> mouse & touchpad

[AshleyQuick]

I don't see that. (This is Lubuntu).

[kerry_s]

I don't see that. (This is Lubuntu).

then control center-> mouse

sorry my memory sucks. i think lubuntu has that multi-tier kind of menu thing where it just keeps expanding to the right.

it might be settings-> preferences-> mouse or hardware-> mouse or devices-> mouse

i'm sure it's your menu somewhere.

you might want to check out elementary os, just as lite, but dead simple.

[AshleyQuick]

There's a keyboard and mouse area but nothing there regarding the touchpad.

This particular touchpad is ridiculously sensitive and more importantly, I never use it.

[AshleyQuick]

Here's something I tried BUT the touchpad is re-enabled after a reboot. Can someone walk me though a way to make it permanent?

xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

[Geoffrey_Arndt]

So you don't have a F1, F7 or similar hot-key combo using function and one of your number keys? These act as a toggle - do again to reverse the change. I haven't seen many laptops without that function.

[kerry_s]

Here's something I tried BUT the touchpad is re-enabled after a reboot. Can someone walk me though a way to make it permanent?

xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

add it to your startup apps, it does have startup apps editor right?

sorry, i just installed elementary os, to show my nephew how it's done. so my mind is elsewhere. on the + he just gave me a great trade on 2x4gb of ram, so now i have my laptop maxed out.

[AshleyQuick]

I don't see a startup editor.

The following command works to disable the touchpad UNTIL I reboot: xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

So I have tried creating a crontab using @reboot xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled"...that didn't work. So I then created a startup.sh file and placed it in /etc/init.d and THAT didn't work. I've reached an impasse.

[kerry_s]

thats because those run as root. you need it to run as you the user.

run this command:
nano ~/.config/autostart/custom_command

copy & paste this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name[en_US]=Custom Command
Comment[en_US]=xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0
Exec=xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0
Icon=application-default-icon
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Type=Application

press ctrl+x, them y & enter to save.

you should be good to go.

haha, almost screwed up. forgot to remove it from my startup, after i copied & pasted it for you.