Hi, Esther. Didn't have this problem in Snow Leopard. Believe there
was a way to disable the trackpad or at least desensitize it. Now,
it drives me crazy. I don't have a separate MagicPad, only the
trackpad that's on my MacBook Pro. Any additional ideas to stop the
crazy mouse from running all over the place would be greatly
appreciated. Shouldn't have to resort to Bounty towels to stop
this. I've always sadi, a good mouse is a dead mouse. <grin>.
Matthew Chao
At 01:34 PM 11/4/2012, you wrote:
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.
>>
>>
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