HowTo: Disable Synaptics Touchpad While Typing

[reacocard]

Hi reacocard: I tried all of what you said but it is not working for me. I am running Kubuntu and but my laptop's touchpad is NOT a Synaptics touchpad. I wonder if that is why this does not work for me?
I created file syndaemon.sh in the Autostart folder and rebooted but it is not working for me. I put the following two code lines into the file:
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File: syndaemon.sh
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#!/bin/sh
syndaemon -i 5 -d
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I also did a chmod a+x syndaemon.sh to make it executable. I really am a novice at this...have been using Linux for about 2 weeks now, so I am guessing at most of this.
Did I write the file correctly? Is it NOT working because the laptop does not have a Synaptics touchpad?
walt

Did you enable SHMConfig? without that syndaemon can't do anything.

[wladicus]

Hi reaocard,

Did you enable SHMConfig? without that syndaemon can't do anything.

Yes, I did enable SHMConfig with [Option "SHMConfig" "on"] and still no go.
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walt
St. Thomas, Ontario = 42.77°N, 81.11°W =
RASC: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

[wladicus]

If anybody knows what these exerpts from the Xorg.O.log file mean in terms of solving the touchpad annoyance then please help. I noticed that the log reports that my laptop has no Synaptics touchpad.
Xorg.O.log.txt
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walt
St. Thomas, Ontario = 42.77°N, 81.11°W =
RASC: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

[Mariane]

Thanks to all of you. I was seriously considering cellotaping all over the touchpad because it was driving me crazy...

One thing which would be great would be if there was a way to configure the laptop so that plugging in a mouse automatically disables the touchpad completely. Anyone knows a way to do this, please?

synclient TouchpadOff=1
and
synclient TouchpadOff=0

Are a great substitude, though, it's really nice to be able to control the thing even if I have to type these commands each time.

Mariane

[wladicus]

synclient TouchpadOff=1
and
synclient TouchpadOff=0
Are a great substitute...
Mariane

Thank you Mariane for the contribution, but as I have said many times in many threads, I have already tried all the basic suggestions, including the one you just mentioned and about 3 or 4 different variations of that including an automated file that should have taken care of everything on boot-up. Alas, nothing seems to work! The Kubuntu development team did not make it on this one. I hope they improve on development of these kind of 'basics'.
Thank you,
walt

[wladicus]

From a terminal enter the following code:
To disable the Touchpad -

sudo rmmod psmouse

To re-enable a disabled Touchpad -

sudo modprobe psmouse

I suppose this can be automated in a file somehow or even attached to a function key probably if someone has the knowhow.
I received this solution from the following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=13

I managed to work out a detailed HOW TO for setting up a shortcut key version of this can be found in the last post at the following link:

http://forums.techguy.org/unix-linux...d-kibuntu.html

[bigb_thedestroyer]

Great tutorial, I used to do this on my older Dell laptop. Now, I have a FN + <Function> key combo I can press to turn off my touchpad. Its on my Acer Aspire.

Bb

[roberthr]

Is there a way to achieve this in Intrepid Ibex?
You can't put SHMConfig in xorg.conf, since it doesn't have any entries. You can't use gsynaptics or syndaemon either because it says you don't have shared memory turned on. Why can't they fix this once and for all with simple gui?

[Sponzenbroekske]

intrepid 64bit laptop

This is my xorg.conf, as you see, i might have a problem, cuz I can't see a section synaptic, I search this thread but I didnt get a real answer

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	DefaultDepth	24
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver	"fglrx"
EndSection

[Sponzenbroekske]

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