disable touchpad when mouse is connected

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disable touchpad when mouse is connected

Created 1 year ago, edited 1 year ago.
Status changed 7 months ago

Author:

seneq

Status:
Under dev. review

Score:

7
21 votes

Idea:

It would be verry usefull if linuxmint had an option/program that could disable the touchpad when a mouse is connected , * and also options for permanent disable/enable the touchpad ( is helps you if you write code and you mistakenly press the touchpad) . You got the idea !

I think this kind of things would make linuxmint be #1.
It is difficult for a new linux user to write souch a script , and there are no programs that will do this for him.

* i know there is the option: " disable touchpad while typing" but it needs to be improved

LE: i found exactly what i needed :

http://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/automatically-disable-touchpad-when-mouse-is-connected-ubuntu/

Comments:

1 year ago	dagon	Well at least it should be solved already. But I think it's the gpointing-device-settings. It's kind of odd to have two different places to set the mouse. Any way, on my computer this function seems to be broken.
1 year ago	dotnick	I beleive the synaptics package provides this. Those options are showing up in my kde system settings in the touchpad module.
1 year ago	seneq	10x 4 the tutorial dagon.
1 year ago	dagon	Found you a tutorial on the subject. I absolutely think this should be standard.
1 year ago	dagon	Automatically disable touchpad

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