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Should-be-obvious laptop mouse option

Postby crimsonmane on Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:25 pm

Automatically disable touchpad when external mouse is detected.
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Re: Should-be-obvious laptop mouse option

Postby tarverator on Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:52 am

Would this work? http://ubuntublog.org/automatically-disable-touchpad.htm
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Re: Should-be-obvious laptop mouse option

Postby bontoogobeanso on Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:19 am

I just fixed this annoying problem on my Mint13 KDE. Utilities>synaptics lets you automatically switch off touchpad when mouse is detected, or disable it while typing.
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