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I am trying Linux Mint Nadia on an HP tx1000 and would like to disable the touchpad. I have a wireless USB mouse that works great but I can't use the keyboard without my big fat palms hitting the touchpad. I am hoping for a disable/enable capability like newer laptops.

john

Check this:
http://community.linuxmint.com/idea/view/2032
http://www.rvdavid.net/disabling-the-la ... ntu-linux/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65951/ho ... e-touchpad

Simple. Just type the following command in Terminal:
It is case-sensitive so be sure and type it exactly (or just copy/paste it in Terminal).

You can also enable "palm detection" in gpointing-device-settings (you can get that program from the repository). Also, many laptops including my HP have a touchpad on/off button, or an Fn key combination to turn off the touchpad.

tdockery97 wrote:Simple. Just type the following command in Terminal:

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synclient TouchpadOff=1

It is case-sensitive so be sure and type it exactly (or just copy/paste it in Terminal).

Simple and it works! Thank you

Thanks tdockery97! I worked well on LMDE also.
I could take off the computer-owners taped hard-paper over the touchpad now...
And i also checked that I could put it on again with:

gpointing-device-settings did the trick for me.

tdockery97 wrote:Simple. Just type the following command in Terminal:

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synclient TouchpadOff=1

It is case-sensitive so be sure and type it exactly (or just copy/paste it in Terminal).

Completely awesome advice, works beautifully on my HP Pavillion, found this thread on a quickie google search. Is there a way to make that something permanent that runs every time the system boots? I'm revisiting Mint for the first time since Mint 10 and am liking what I see. Running 17.1 Cinnamon 64 bit.

Trying with synclient resulted in this:
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
It seems that the touchpad is activated when the screen is lowered and then reactivated.

nomko wrote:Check this:
http://community.linuxmint.com/idea/view/2032
http://www.rvdavid.net/disabling-the-la ... ntu-linux/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
http://askubuntu.com/questions/65951/ho ... e-touchpad

I partially solved my problem having read
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
I input into the terminal
xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0
with 13 being device ID of my touchpad. I'd now like to make sure that this runs automatically every time I start Linux Mint. How can I do that?

You can run it automatically after logging in by adding the command in Startup Applications, which is available in the menu.

By the way chipps and galileo6, you are responding to a thread of 3 years old which is marked as "solved". It is not your thread either but johninreno's thread. I recommend you to start your own thread if you run into further problems. It is not a problem to start your own thread and post a link/reference/quote to this thread to make clear that your terminal commands came from here.

AlbertP wrote:You can run it automatically after logging in by adding the command in Startup Applications, which is available in the menu.

By the way chipps and galileo6, you are responding to a thread of 3 years old which is marked as "solved". It is not your thread either but johninreno's thread. I recommend you to start your own thread if you run into further problems. It is not a problem to start your own thread and post a link/reference/quote to this thread to make clear that your terminal commands came from here.

Perfect, thank you, exactly what I was looking for and works as advertised. I am aware it's an old thread, I found it via google - not trying to add anything new, just thought it was appropriate to say thank you.

Hi:

I am brand new here on linux mint. You have solved my problem and it was very easy to do. Now all I can do is only use the mouse and no errors in typing which is sooo nice. Thanks for the help.

Hi:

I had a previous post about disabling the touchpad so I can use a mouse and thanks that was solved. I tried to do a new post but I couldn't find a means to enter it, So, I am using this section again.

I installed Mint Sara 18 and I had to revert back to Mint 17.1 which is a lot easier to use. For one thing, I couldn't find the touchpad so I could disable it. I hunted everywhere. There was icon in the settings window but no provision to disable it. Becoming frustrated, I just reverted back to know good Mint. Since Mint 18 is in beta stage, I thought it best not to fiddle with it. Maybe later, when there is a final release, I will think about installing it.

I partially solved my problem having read
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
I input into the terminal
xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0
with 13 being device ID of my touchpad. I'd now like to make sure that this runs automatically every time I start Linux Mint. How can I do that?

Thank you for this solution! You can create something like a simple script and put it to autostart.

The best option is to use

Touchpad Indicator : Easily disable or enable touchpad in Linux Mint
Terminal command :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

Video Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzBeY0Lsfs

I managed to install touchpad - indicator

I tried to start it through the START Menu but there was no difference on the screen

There is an icon near to the clock

I tried to disable the touchpad through the menu but it is hopeless: There is a mouse installed but the touchpad is still working

markus@medion:~$ touchpad-indicator
<gettext.GNUTranslations object at 0x7f97aa560a58>
No LSB modules are available.
#####################################################
Distributor: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Release: 19.2
Codename: tina
Architecture: x86_64
#####################################################

Touchpad-Indicator version: 2.2.1-0extras19.04.0
[]
[]
=== 2 ===
=== 21 ===
=== 211 ===
==== start set_touch_enabled =====
set_touch_enabled: False
are_all_touchpad_enabled: False

(touchpad-indicator:2042): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 18:40:06.444: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates: assertion 'window->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed










markus@medion:~$ inxi -Fxms
System:
Host: medion Kernel: 4.15.0-118-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Medion product: Akoya P2214T v: 1.0
serial: <root required>
Mobo: Medion model: Akoya P2214T v: 1.0 serial: <root required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 707 date: 06/14/2016
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 20.9 Wh condition: 21.7/25.9 Wh (84%)
model: TKBSS T11P 37 status: Discharging
ID-2: BAT1 charge: 18.4 Wh condition: 29.9/31.2 Wh (96%)
model: TKBSS T11D 44 status: Discharging
Memory:
RAM: total: 3.74 GiB used: 2.00 GiB (53.5%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Celeron N2940 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Silvermont rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 14660
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 500/2249 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 846 2: 592
3: 886 4: 988
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
vendor: Pegatron driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (BYT) v: 4.2 Mesa 20.0.8
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Pegatron driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-118-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000
bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 524.01 GiB used: 32.24 GiB (6.2%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: HCG8e size: 58.25 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 54.91 GiB used: 16.03 GiB (29.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 152.6 MiB (21.7%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
ID-3: swap-1 size: 975.5 MiB used: 27.2 MiB (2.8%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 217 Uptime: 1h 29m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.32
markus@medion:~$

Shagato wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:35 am The best option is to use

Touchpad Indicator : Easily disable or enable touchpad in Linux Mint
Terminal command :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

Video Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzBeY0Lsfs

THANK YOU!

You helped me solve this annoying problem, finally! None of the other solutions worked (I have tried from time to time to fix this. That touchpad is really, really keen on keeping on working. No more ).
I have a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook A555 running Linux Mint 19 atm. I use it with a bluetooth mouse.