There's a handy little CLI tool called syndaemon that does this for you
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syndaemon -d
If you add -t you only disable tapping and scrolling, not mouse movement (Just for your info - mostly it's the movement you want to disable)
If you add -i 1 it's enabled after one second
To make syndaemon start automatically add the command to the "Startup Applications" (for Gnome)
Open the menu and type star and you see it
Click the add button and enter syndaemon -d and give it a name (Notouch perhaps?)
In KDE 4 (Gloria) it is Applications > System > System settings > the Advanced tab > Autostart
Click Add program and enter syndaemon -d
To make sure that it works you should enable SHMConfig
In all editions except main and KDE you have to install SHMConfig
For Gnome
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gksudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi
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kdesudo kate /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi
Add the following to that file
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Note - for versions earlier than Felicia (Mint 6) this is added to xorg.conf
In
Section "InputDevice"
you add
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
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