[ltp] E520 - turn off touch pad

Ricardo Reis linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:39:45 +0100 (WEST)


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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, James Knott wrote:

> Ricardo Reis wrote:
>> I have made it into a script that is activated by .xsession and also map=
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>> to the touchpad Fn key. Sometime I lend my computer and people don't=20
>> interact well with the trackpoint.=20
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> As I mentioned in another note, I created a script in ~/.kde4/Autostart.=
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> With it there, it only affects the one user, so if others have their own=
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> account, it won't affect them.  Also, since your script is tied to the Fn=
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> key, what happens when you use that key to do something with the function=
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> keys?


Sorry, I meant Fn + [touchpad control Fn key]

(in my machine it is F8)

anyway, my problem is not other user accounts, it as simple has letting=20
the wife use the browser "for a moment".

and I'm a fluxbox user

lovely thing about Linux, so many ways of interacting with the system :)

cheers,


  Ricardo Reis

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