Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE
Date	2020-06-27 05:40 +0200
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Paul Johnson wrote: 
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > xinput will tell you about the I/O devices you have, giving you
> > numbers.
> >
> > xinput list followed by one of those device numbers will give
> > you lots of output, so you can be sure you've got the right one.
> >
> > xinput disable followed by that device number should, in fact,
> > disable it.
> >
> > Let us know if you aren't using xinput.
> 
> 
>  I'm not seeing the touchpad listed.
> 
> baloo@wojtek:~$ xinput
> ???   ??? SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=15   [slave  pointer
>  (2)]


There you go. id=15.

Try 
xinput disable 15
and see if it makes you happy.

-dsr-

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Disable touchpad completely in KDE Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2020-06-26 15:50 +0200
  Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-26 16:30 +0200
    Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> - 2020-06-27 03:10 +0200
      Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-27 05:20 +0200
      Re: Disable touchpad completely in KDE Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-06-27 05:40 +0200

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