Did you press vo and use the gesture of turning a knob counterclockwise on the track pad to turn track pad commander off? Barbara
On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Chao <mattc...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> <--- 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/> > > > <--- 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/> <--- 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/>
