Can I disable glide pad laptop mouse?

[Marshall Neill]

Glad to be of help T.

On 05/20/2011 10:08 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05/11/2011 08:14 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>> On 05/11/2011 04:46 PM, Marshall Neill wrote:
>>>> Try this, it worked for me when I ran XFCE.   If it does the trick 
>>>> then just go to Settings and Startup Applications and add it.    
>>>> Don't forget to add the &  to the end of the command
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Marshall,
>>>
>>> Did you forget to attach the fix?
>>>
>>> -T
>
> On 05/11/2011 07:30 PM, Marshall Neill wrote:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
>>
>
> Hi Marshal,
>
> I put the following script into my Xfce startup:
>
> <code>
> #!/bin/bash -x
> #Disable the [annoying] Slide Pad mouse
>
> DeviceStr="`xinput list | grep -i touchpad | awk '{print $6}'`"
> DeviceID="`echo $DeviceStr | sed -e 's/id=//'`"
> xinput set-prop $DeviceID "Device Enabled" 0
> echo "touchpad mouse disabled"
> echo ""
> </code>
>
> Works under Fedora Core 14, but not under CentOS 5.6 due
> to a qt3 dependency problem.
>
> I do suppose you could get rid of the "sed" [from hell] command
> by modifying the "awk" command:
>
>       echo "aaa bbb ccc id=5" |  awk -F "id=" '{print $2}'
>
> Note the $2, not $5 and no "id=" gets printed.  It is all
> in the "-F" parameter.
>
> Thank you for the help.  My customer is tickled.
>
> -T
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