I can't tell you for sure if disabling via synclient would work, because manually I didn't try it and I am quite busy lately. Though I've tried gnome shell touchpad indicator extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/131/touchpad-indicator/) in ubuntu gnome 13.10 as this is what I am using right now and neither options work correctly (neither synclient method). But I can help you in another way: I kind of fixed the bug with 2 scripts I made. The ideea to successfully disable touchpad is to execute these lines:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled 'false' sleep 1s gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled 'false' As you you can see,running the first command twice (at an interval of 1 sec) just does the job correctly. https://www.dropbox.com/s/3z1jt4zltwsrhpb/touchpadscript.zip The scripts in the archive work as follows: - touchpad status is 1 when touchpad is enabled - 0 when touchpad disabled - touchpad-select is used to change ~/.touchpad/touchpad-status from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0, also to assure that syndaemon will be deactivated or activated with my settings, and easystroke loads the touchpadmode/mousemode settings. - touchpad-scan is started by default from startup applications and it assures that the touchpad settings and mouse settings are accordingly to touchpad-status value ( because when unplugging mouse, when switching to and from tty consoles, or when ressuming from suspend touchpad is enabled automatically) - touchpad-scan will also kill touchpad-select, as touchpad select will have easystroke as a child process, and I don't want that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245412 Title: Enable/Disable Touchpad not working correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1245412/+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
