The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[mascarasnake]

On 05/08/2010 06:23 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> I just discovered the simplest way to disable Touchpad in Ubuntu,
> system-wide:
>
>
> Uninstall the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
>
I use synclient (running Xubuntu)

	user at host:~/Pictures$ synclient touchpadoff=1
		turns off the touchpad
	user at host:~/Pictures$ synclient touchpadoff=0
		turns off the touchpad

I then set the commands as scripts:
touchkill.sh
	#! /bin/sh
	synclient touchpadoff=1
touchstart.sh
	#! /bin/sh
	synclient touchpadoff=0"
chmod +x both, put them in my $PATH and set them to run on login through 
"Session and Startup" under "Settings".