The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

[Fred A. Miller]

On 05/10/2010 01:50 PM, mascarasnake wrote:
> 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".
>    

Nada.......doesn't work. :(

Fred