Can I disable glide pad laptop mouse?

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Le 12/05/2011 01:13, Todd And Margo Chester a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> I have a customer on FC14 and Xfce 4.6.1 and a Toshiba
> laptop.  He uses an external mouse because he hates
> the built in slide pad.  (I don't care for slide pads either.)
>
> Problem, he is always resting his wrist on the slide pad,
> selecting things, and messing up his mouse pointed.
>
> He asked me if there is a way to disable the slide pad.
> Anyone know how to do this?  Does Xfce have an
> option for this?
On my Toshiba laptop, Fn+F9 (Fn is next to left Ctrl key) disables the 
touchpad device.
You may unload the kernel module (Synaptics I guess) as well.
I don't think that Xfce is the needed software to hack with for a 
hardware related problem.


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