[kde-linux] Programming a key to disable touchpad

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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.
>
I haven't seen the original of this, so thanks, Sascha.  I'll look into that.

Anne
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