Lee Jamieson wrote: > Hi all.
>
> Is there a way to make my touchpad on my HP530 laptop turn itself off
> when I have plugged in an external mouse? I have tried installing a
> program called gpointing-device-settings which allows me to disable
> the touchpad manually, although for some reason it is not sticking and
> I have to keep doing it.
>
> I'm not sure on how to write scripts to do that, but I'm willing to
> learn. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, without any modifications.
>
> Thanks all.
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