[ltp] E520 - turn off touch pad

[Ricardo Reis]

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, James Knott wrote:

> Ricardo Reis wrote:

>>     synclient TouchpadOff=3D1
>
> That seems to have done it.  I'll have to add that command to=20
> /etc/init.d/after.local, so that it's always off.

I have made it into a script that is activated by .xsession and also=20
mapped to the touchpad Fn key. Sometime I lend my computer and people=20
don't interact well with the trackpoint.


touchpad.sh

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#!/bin/bash

if [ $(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | gawk -F '=3D ' '{ print $2 }') -eq=
=20
0 ]; then
     synclient TouchpadOff=3D1
else
     synclient TouchpadOff=3D0
fi

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  Ricardo Reis

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