The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:27 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:23 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > I had previously disabled the touchpad system-wide by creating the
> > following file:
> > 
> > 
> > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi:
> > 
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> >  <device>
> >   <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
> >    <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
> >   </match>
> >  </device>
> > </deviceinfo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > You may try that.
> 
> 
> ... if you have Ubuntu 9.10 or previous.


I just checked my 10.04 installation, and it appears that HAL is
installed, although it was removed in some 10.04 Beta release.


So you may try it under 10.04 too.







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