On Monday 22 January 2007 02:59, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Monday 22 January 2007 02:06, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I've got a Dell 6400 / E1505 laptop. The great engineers at Dell put >> the touchpad so close to the keyboard that I'm hitting it every five >> minutes by mistake. Is there and _easy_ way to enable/disable it? Like >> a keyboard shortcut, hardware button, or panel applet (KDE)? >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > >Is there a key programmed (in windows) to turn it off? There is on my > Acer, and it works equally well in linux. The ancient Packard Bell > doesn't have such a key, so I suffer as you do. > >Anne I'm using a "synaptics" utility, kills that bad puppy completely. But it puts an icon in the tray you can click on to re-enable it. Using an optical wireless mouse plugged into a usb port, the only time I ever clicked on it was to see if it worked, it did. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
