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From: Micha on 5 May 2008 11:50
Is it possible, and if so how to automatically disable the touchpad when
plugging in a usb mouse to the laptop?

this is a dell vosotro laptop with the touchpad using the synapics driver

Thanks


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From: Andrea Gozzi on 5 May 2008 12:30
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 18:49 +0300, Micha wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so how to automatically disable the touchpad when
> plugging in a usb mouse to the laptop?
>
> this is a dell vosotro laptop with the touchpad using the synapics driver
>
> Thanks
>
>

easy peasy:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/disable-synaptics-touchpad/

Andrea


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From: Bob Proulx on 6 May 2008 00:50
Micha wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so how to automatically disable the touchpad when
> plugging in a usb mouse to the laptop?

I don't know udev details but a udev script triggered when the mouse
is plugged in seems reasonable to me. I am sure the synclient would
be useful in that script.

apt-cache show xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

man synclient

synclient TouchpadOff=1
synclient TouchpadOff=0

I find the syndaemon an indispensable tool on my laptop. It isn't
what you are asking about but seems related. Might be useful to know
about anyway.

syndaemon -i 1 -K -d

Bob
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