Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: touchfreeze
I tried to completely disable the touchpad using the tray icon sub-menu, but it
did not work. After doing some research, I found that it can be easily done in
karmic doing the following:
($ = command line, i.e. gnome-terminal, Accesories → Terminal)
$ xinput list
<Look for your touchpad>
$ xinput set-int-prop "<the name of your touchpad>" "Device Enabled" 8 0
In my case
$ xinput list
[...]
"AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" id=8 [XExtensionPointer]
Type is TOUCHPAD
Num_buttons is 12
Num_axes is 2
[...]
$ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 0
To reenable:
$ xinput set-int-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" "Device Enabled" 8 1
(also see: $ man synaptics
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Input%20Configuration%20with%20HAL
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#hal
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=271052&highlight=disable+touchpad+while+typing)
** Affects: touchfreeze (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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does not disable touchpad in vaio vgn-n330fh karmic i386
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501181
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