Hello Matthew and Anne, I think an alternative if you have a Magic Trackpad is to use the setting to ignore TrackPad if a mouse or Magic TrackPad is connected. You could set this in System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad and check the box to ignore the built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present. Then you could put the Magic Trackpad someplace safely out of range of accidental touches.
A low tech solution someone suggested was to cut a section of heavy paper towel and tape it over the Trackpad region. The claim was that Bounty paper towel is thick enough so that the Trackpad won't activate when accidentally touched. I haven't tried this myself. Anne's correct that there doesn't seem to be a way to otherwise disable the Trackpad. I recall that Gordon asked about this for an earlier version of Mac OS X. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > I don't think there is a way to turn off the trackpad in ML. I was looking > for this facility for a client just the other day and couldn't find it. I > suppose if you turn on the Trackpad Commander, the mouse won't go skating all > over the place. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > On 4 Nov 2012, at 18:40, Matthew Chao <mattc...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> Hi, Folks. I upgraded to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro, and the trackpad >> now is very sensitive when my thumbs brush across it. I would prefer not to >> have the trackpad active. How do I disable the trackpad? Thanks in advance. >> >> Matthew Chao >> >> P.S. I looked in the braille instructions for VoiceOver, but readily >> couldn't find anything about disabling the trackpad. >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
