On 09/06/2014 10:58 AM, HeyJim wrote: > I've always been able to turn the touch pad off and on in Mint 17 64 bit, but > when I do, it also turns off the buttons. The Trackpoint device also uses > those buttons. I've tried all the options mentioned here. Any suggestions? > > This is what I did in KDE on openSUSE: Create script in ~/.kde4/Autostart #!/bin/sh synclient TouchpadOff=1