Can I kill synaptics touch pad? (Solved)

[rick0612]

Hi,

My Dell Mini9 touch pad is driving me nuts. It keeps moving the cursor all over the place while typing.
BIOS has no shutoff option, the keyboard doesn't have an Fn that will kill it and xorg.conf doesn't have the device listed.
Anyone have any ideas about how to kill the touch pad in KDE4?

Thanks,

Rick.

EDIT: Found that qsynaptics (what linuxera suggested) is installed by default in PCLOS Beta2. Very simple fix.

Thanks folks!!
Rick.

[parnote]

rick0612,

I'm laughing, cuz I also had the same problem. Touchpad driving me ABSOLUTELY bonkers, moving around the screen all the time, and no where in the BIOS to shut it down.

Never fear ... here's my solution:

I created two bash files, and placed them in my /home directory, and copied a symlink to them in /bin. One is called TouchpadOff, and the other one is called TouchpadOn.

Each bash script has one simple line (after the shebang) ...

TouchpadOff's line: synclient TouchpadOff=1

TouchpadOn's line: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Solved the problem for me. I just run the TouchpadOff script when I log in. Alternatively, I could also just insert it into my .kde4/Autostart folder (which I'll probably do when I install PCLinuxOS 2010 Final).

I hope this helps!

parnote

[Linuxera]

My solution. (Both Toshiba laptops)
  Open synaptic, download qsynaptics, open qsynaptics from menu, hit touchpad off, close and 'voila'  no more jumpy cursor.. 

[Bullitt]

rick0612,

I'm laughing, cuz I also had the same problem. Touchpad driving me ABSOLUTELY bonkers, moving around the screen all the time, and no where in the BIOS to shut it down.

Never fear ... here's my solution:

I created two bash files, and placed them in my /home directory, and copied a symlink to them in /bin. One is called TouchpadOff, and the other one is called TouchpadOn.

Each bash script has one simple line (after the shebang) ...

TouchpadOff's line: synclient TouchpadOff=1

TouchpadOn's line: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Solved the problem for me. I just run the TouchpadOff script when I log in. Alternatively, I could also just insert it into my .kde4/Autostart folder (which I'll probably do when I install PCLinuxOS 2010 Final).

I hope this helps!

parnote

I tried putting synclient TouchpadOff=1 in the autostart folder using a text editor, making a file with that one line in it and saving it to the autostart folder.  It won't execute, what am I missing? Maybe that's not the best way to put it,  what do I need to do to make a script file?

Thanks, Bullitt

[parnote]

rick0612,

I'm laughing, cuz I also had the same problem. Touchpad driving me ABSOLUTELY bonkers, moving around the screen all the time, and no where in the BIOS to shut it down.

Never fear ... here's my solution:

I created two bash files, and placed them in my /home directory, and copied a symlink to them in /bin. One is called TouchpadOff, and the other one is called TouchpadOn.

Each bash script has one simple line (after the shebang) ...

TouchpadOff's line: synclient TouchpadOff=1

TouchpadOn's line: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Solved the problem for me. I just run the TouchpadOff script when I log in. Alternatively, I could also just insert it into my .kde4/Autostart folder (which I'll probably do when I install PCLinuxOS 2010 Final).

I hope this helps!

parnote

I tried putting synclient TouchpadOff=1 in the autostart folder using a text editor, making a file with that one line in it and saving it to the autostart folder.  It won't execute, what am I missing? Maybe that's not the best way to put it,  what do I need to do to make a script file?

Thanks, Bullitt

Bullitt,

Check in Synaptic. I've since created TouchpadToggle, which takes care of this for you. It can be ran as a standalone application whenever you want to toggle the touch pad, or can be ran silently (as a startup script), with the appropriate command line switches.

parnote

[Bullitt]

rick0612,

I'm laughing, cuz I also had the same problem. Touchpad driving me ABSOLUTELY bonkers, moving around the screen all the time, and no where in the BIOS to shut it down.

Never fear ... here's my solution:

I created two bash files, and placed them in my /home directory, and copied a symlink to them in /bin. One is called TouchpadOff, and the other one is called TouchpadOn.

Each bash script has one simple line (after the shebang) ...

TouchpadOff's line: synclient TouchpadOff=1

TouchpadOn's line: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Solved the problem for me. I just run the TouchpadOff script when I log in. Alternatively, I could also just insert it into my .kde4/Autostart folder (which I'll probably do when I install PCLinuxOS 2010 Final).

I hope this helps!

parnote

I tried putting synclient TouchpadOff=1 in the autostart folder using a text editor, making a file with that one line in it and saving it to the autostart folder.  It won't execute, what am I missing? Maybe that's not the best way to put it,  what do I need to do to make a script file?

Thanks, Bullitt

Bullitt,

Check in Synaptic. I've since created TouchpadToggle, which takes care of this for you. It can be ran as a standalone application whenever you want to toggle the touch pad, or can be ran silently (as a startup script), with the appropriate command line switches.

parnote

Great this work very nicely.  Is there a way when I run the program in autostart to hide/answer the response panel where you need to click okay?

Thanks again for your help, Bullitt

[parnote]

rick0612,

I'm laughing, cuz I also had the same problem. Touchpad driving me ABSOLUTELY bonkers, moving around the screen all the time, and no where in the BIOS to shut it down.

Never fear ... here's my solution:

I created two bash files, and placed them in my /home directory, and copied a symlink to them in /bin. One is called TouchpadOff, and the other one is called TouchpadOn.

Each bash script has one simple line (after the shebang) ...

TouchpadOff's line: synclient TouchpadOff=1

TouchpadOn's line: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Solved the problem for me. I just run the TouchpadOff script when I log in. Alternatively, I could also just insert it into my .kde4/Autostart folder (which I'll probably do when I install PCLinuxOS 2010 Final).

I hope this helps!

parnote

I tried putting synclient TouchpadOff=1 in the autostart folder using a text editor, making a file with that one line in it and saving it to the autostart folder.  It won't execute, what am I missing? Maybe that's not the best way to put it,  what do I need to do to make a script file?

Thanks, Bullitt

Bullitt,

Check in Synaptic. I've since created TouchpadToggle, which takes care of this for you. It can be ran as a standalone application whenever you want to toggle the touch pad, or can be ran silently (as a startup script), with the appropriate command line switches.

parnote

Great this work very nicely.  Is there a way when I run the program in autostart to hide/answer the response panel where you need to click okay?

Thanks again for your help, Bullitt

Yes ... with the --no-gui command line switch.

parnote

[Bullitt]

I got it! Now I have my computer start with the touchpad off, very nice.  I have also added the touchpad toggle GUI you wrote to my favorites so I can always toggle it back on when ever I need it.  Oh how little things make us happy

Thanks Parnote for all your help, Bullittt

[parnote]

I got it! Now I have my computer start with the touchpad off, very nice.  I have also added the touchpad toggle GUI you wrote to my favorites so I can always toggle it back on when ever I need it.  Oh how little things make us happy

Thanks Parnote for all your help, Bullittt

You're welcome, Bullitt! Glad you got it sorted.

parnote