[Plug] Touchpad questions

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi Lee.

Have you seen this:

http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/fully-disabling-touchpad-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

-Lucas

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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Lucas van Staden

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