How to disable touchpad on laptop

[donaldfarkas]

it gets annoying when you got a touchpad where your thumb always touches it and you just start typing somewhere else it sucks i seen some tutorials out there to disable it but they are not clear as to what i have to do would anyone would be kind enough to help me out.

[D-cat]

Open your Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for touchpad. It should list several configuration tools. The one that looks most useful to you might be touchfreeze.

[donaldfarkas]

i installed it run it does nothing for me

[D-cat]

Looking at the QSynaptics page (predicessor to TouchFreeze), I see this line:

ksynaptics does not show any effect on the touch pad at all!
Most probably you need to add the
Option "ShmConfig" "true"
to the touch pad section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf ( /etc/X11/XFree86-4.conf ).
Otherwise check in /var/log whether the synaptics driver module is used (You might need the 'evdev' driver module loaded).

It also requires /usr/bin/synclient which is included in the package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics; if you can use your touchpad, it's likely already installed.

I also found this interesting line:

TouchFreeze 0.2.3
Version 0.2.3 has a new UI, finally saves settings and offers the possibility to disable the delay feature completely. Also, driver versions should be detected properly now!

Since what I'm looking at as available in my Synaptics manager is 0.2.2-0ubuntu1, it might be worth downloading and compiling the newer version from source.
QSynaptics - X11 touch pad driver configuration utility

[grimsbyguy]

Try this:
1. in panel, click on System, then Preferences and then Mouse
2. In the Mouse Preferences dialog, click on the "Touchpad" tab and then simply click on the checkbox for General - "Enable Touchpad" to enable or disable as needed.

Take care

[waterhead]

You should be able to do this with the syndaemon application.

Usage: syndaemon [-i idle-time] [-m poll-delay] [-d] [-t] [-k]
-i How many seconds to wait after the last key press before enabling the touchpad. (default is 2.0s)
-m How many milli-seconds to wait until next poll. (default is 200ms)
-d Start as a daemon, ie in the background.
-p Create a pid file with the specified name.
-t Only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movements.
-k Ignore modifier keys when monitoring keyboard activity.
-K Like -k but also ignore Modifier+Key combos.
-S Use SHMConfig even if input device properties are available.

To disable it for 2 seconds, run it as a daemon, only disable tapping and scrolling and ignor modifier keys (like Ctrl and Alt) enter this.

syndaemon -i 2 -d -t -K

[donaldfarkas]

Try this:
1. in panel, click on System, then Preferences and then Mouse
2. In the Mouse Preferences dialog, click on the "Touchpad" tab and then simply click on the checkbox for General - "Enable Touchpad" to enable or disable as needed.

Take care

yea i figured it out after i posted it i forgot to update tho