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snvv
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Post subject: Automatically switch off touchpad, if a mouse is plugged
 Posted: 04.09.2011, 15:03
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In system settings I can find touchpad under lost and found.
Then the problem is when I select "Automatically switch off touchpad, if a mouse is plugged" it does not work.
Usually I use a mouse and that touchpad is very annoying.
Is there an other way to take it off the way when I use the mouse?
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Post subject: RE: Automatically switch off touchpad, if a mouse is plugged
Posted: 04.09.2011, 17:54
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| I'm not on a laptop currently but I believe some laptops have this as a BIOS option as well. The relevant KDE package for this is kde-config-touchpad, which I assume you're using. There's also tpconfig and gpointing-device-settings. |
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snvv
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Posted: 25.10.2011, 17:00
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I don't have access to bios thanks to HP 
But I did managed to "solve" the problem using the following script
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/bash
if [ $(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | gawk -F '= ' '{ print $2 }') -eq 0 ]; then
synclient TouchpadOff=1
else
synclient TouchpadOff=0
fi
ctrl+shift+spacebar and the mouse goes off and on.
Regards
snvv |
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Posted: 03.11.2011, 02:03
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| I thought all laptops had a button to switch off and on the touchpad |
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snvv
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Posted: 04.11.2011, 12:14
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Mine has a "button" on the top left side of touchpad (integrated in touchpad) that does not work.
HP has drivers only for opensuse.
No other distribution utilizes that "key".
Any way ctrl+shift+space bar is quite easy to use. |
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Posted: 04.11.2011, 13:48
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snvv wrote:
Mine has a "button" on the top left side of touchpad (integrated in touchpad) that does not work.
Does the key generates a keycode? (run 'xev' and press the key to see the info)
Have you choosen the right keyboard (dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration)?
If the key has a keycode you can assign it run your script if you want.
I have to add that i have an Acer which has such a key and sends keycodes but is handled correctly anyway - after choosing the correct keyboard configuration! The more interesting is the wlan-killbutton as it doesn't send keycodes and works, too…
Oh, and if you want it really to work automatically on mouse-plugged in/out have a look at udev and it's rules. It shouldn't be hard to write rules to run your script. |
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Posted: 04.11.2011, 18:05
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Lat wrote:
I thought all laptops had a button to switch off and on the touchpad
i did too ... then my current laptop showed up ... it does NOT have a button to disable the touchpad. |
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#aptosid-art ftw!
(what would cleary do?)
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Posted: 05.11.2011, 13:38
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Why should one want to disable touchpad of a laptop?
I do not have enable/disable button on ACERs,3 of them including of kids.
Never felt the need. |
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Posted: 05.11.2011, 16:54
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