The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu

Wed May 12 03:34:03 UTC 2010

Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> writes:

> 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.

For 10.04 you need to write udev rules for that, see
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input>

   Florian
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