On 07/29/16 07:40, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 29/07/16 11:15, thomas cameron wrote: >> I used to do it in All Settings/Mouse and Touchpad applet. It doesn't >> appear to be there any more. >> >> How do I tell Fedora to not use the touchpad? > > I asked a similar question on this list, long ago, and was advised that from the command > line you can do > > synclient TouchpadOff=1 > > and that worked for me. (Use "=0" to switch it back on again.) > > I created my own panel icon to effect these commands via point and click. > > Note that I am using an antediluvian release of Fedora (and an equally old Mint desktop) > so what I say above may be, uh, off the beam. > > HTH, but. > FWIW, my Acer Laptop reports "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" when using "synclient -l". Yet my touchpad works just fine. KDE has a setting for disabling the touchpad, but it doesn't work. Lucky for me my laptop has a "Fn+F7" key combination which turns off the touchpad hardware wise. -- You're Welcome Zachary Quinto -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org