LaptopTouchpadLocking
Revision 4 as of 2008-02-22 14:07:00
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Various Laptop things that still need tweaking in Ubuntu
Enabling touchpad locking through Fn+Fxx keys
- Assume keysequence to be Fn+F12
- Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following option to the synaptics driver section
Option "SHMConfig" "1"
- Restart X
- Check that the following command works
synclient -l
- Use the following command to disable the touchpad
synclient TouchpadOff=1
- ...and to re-enable it, use
synclient TouchpadOff=0
- Now to hookup the Fn+F12 keycode to this action. It will require a script to keep track of the current state of the touchpad.