The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/10/2010 09:38 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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.
>    

Thanks, but that didn't work. Wrote the file, logged out and back 
in.....nada. :(

Fred