does not disable touchpad in vaio vgn-n330fh karmic i386
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| touchfreeze (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: touchfreeze
I tried to completely disable the touchpad using the tray icon sub-menu, but it did not work. After doing some research, I found that it can be easily done in karmic doing the following:
($ = command line, i.e. gnome-terminal, Accesories → Terminal)
$ xinput list
<Look for your touchpad>
$ xinput set-int-prop "<the name of your touchpad>" "Device Enabled" 8 0
In my case
$ xinput list
[...]
"AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" id=8 [XExtensionPointer]
Type is TOUCHPAD
Num_buttons is 12
Num_axes is 2
[...]
$ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 0
To reenable:
$ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 1
(also see: $ man synaptics
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| hielos (hielos-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
| hielos (hielos-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #2 |
Ok, I learnt a little about bash for this, so don't be cruel. I created a little script that allows to switch the enable/disable state of the touchpad. I hope it helps someone. Once you download it, open a terminal and run (in the folder you downloaded it):
chmod 755 altouchpad
7 to let the owner execute, read and write
5 to let the group execute and read
5 to let everyone else to execute and read
then copy it to /usr/bin :
sudo cp altouchpad /usr/bin/