Because I regularly use a plug-in mouse, I want to disable the entire trackpad when I do have the mouse, not distinguish different actions on the trackpad (so it's not only the palm press I want to extinguish). In case anyone else is in that same position, I use the bash script below to accomplish this. It's the same as that in
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65951/how-to-disable-touchpad except that for us it's "Trackpad", not "Touchpad". (I'm on Quantal 12.10 and I couldn't get Carbonell's "touchpad-Indicator" to work for me.) declare -i ID ID=`xinput list | grep -Eo 'Trackpad\s*id\=[0-9]{1,2}' | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}'` declare -i STATE STATE=`xinput list-props $ID|grep 'Device Enabled'|awk '{print $4}'` if [ $STATE -eq 1 ] then xinput disable $ID echo "Trackpad disabled." else xinput enable $ID echo "Trackpad enabled." fi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092623 Title: touchpad multipoint touching opens Unity Dash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1092623/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
