[kde-linux] Programming a key to disable touchpad

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Sascha Hlusiak wrote:
> > I need to work with an ancient laptop, and I'm having great difficulties
> > because when I am typing I frequently find that the input is appearing in
> > the middle of text somewhere else on the page.  The heel of my hand must
> > be brushing the touchpad.  Unlike my newer one, this laptop doesn't have
> > any Fn key programmed to disable it.  I'm sure it must be possible to do
> > that, but how can do it, and what command would the key need to be given?
> >  I would have though that kcontrol's Keyboard Shortcuts might be the way
> > to do it, but it's not obvious whether it could or not.
>
> Use the synaptics X.Org input driver along with ksynaptics, which has an
> option to disable the touchpad while typing among with other useful stuff.

Any specific reason why you cross-post to kde-devel?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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