Re: How to turn off laptop touchpad? (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics doesn't) [SOLVED]

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On 2022-09-17 08:29:51 James Leone wrote:
> I made a bash script for the laptop i did this for a while back and plonked
> it into ~/.trinity/Autostart.
>
> (Executable text file)
>
> "~" means home directory.
>
> For the lay person.
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 6:01 AM Jim <zlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 23:32 (-0500), J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > > On 2022-09-16 20:06:58 James Leone wrote:
> > >> In general:
> > >> xinput set-prop id-number "Device Enabled" 0
> > >> Specific example (if I wanted to disable my UVC Camera):
> > >>
> > >> xinput set-prop 12 "Device Enabled" 0
> > >>
> > >> You need to identify the id-number of the touchpad first.
> > >>
> > >> Steps:
> > >> 1. at the command prompt, use:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >> From the output, determine the id of your device.
> > >
> > >       Yes, that works.  Thank you.  Should I put that into my .bashrc,
> >
> > or will it be remembered
> >
> > > across logout/ins?
> >
> > In case James doesn't get back to you soon...
> >
> > A quick experiment will probably show you that it will not be
> > remembered across logout / logins.
> >
> > Yes, if you put that command into your .bashrc (assuming you use bash)
> > you should be good to go.
> >
> >                                 Jim
	There seem to be multiple ways of making this work.  I tried the .xsessionrc method, and
I'm happy with that.

Leslie
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