Comments on: Ubuntu Touchpad toggle tweak https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/11/ubuntu-804-tweak-touchpad-toggle/ Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight. Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: admin https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/11/ubuntu-804-tweak-touchpad-toggle/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:37:51 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=99#comment-85 Hi karatedog.

Yup, I'm not keen on how things keep changing from version to version. The fix you describe works for 8.10, but I find the option for 9.04 which I describe above even easier. I basically replaced my script with this line

gconftool-2 –toggle /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/touchpad_enabled

… and then assigned it to a hotkey in System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. So now all I do is press ctrl-alt-f6 and it toggles from one state to another. This means I can even turn my touchpad off when I don't have a mouse plugged in, and just want to type for a while without interruption. Neat.

]]> By: karatedog https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/11/ubuntu-804-tweak-touchpad-toggle/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:57:29 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=99#comment-84 Oh, I see, that was the same you just wrote. But hey, it is working well 🙂

]]> By: karatedog https://play.datalude.com/blog/2008/11/ubuntu-804-tweak-touchpad-toggle/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:56:16 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=99#comment-83 It is much simpler under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackass.
Just enable SHMConfig through that .fdi file of yours, and use:
synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn off the touchpad
synclient TouchpadOff=0 to turn it on

(I hate this reversed behavior…enabling the Off function, grrr!)

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