Am 12.12.2014 um 15:12 schrieb bitlord:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:45:58 +0000
Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>>> There is Enable/Disable Touchpad in Touchpad settings. Is that not
>>> what you are looking for? See the image[1].
>>>
>>> [1]
http://i.imgur.com/fuykmXo.png
>>
>> These disable the touchpad only under certain conditions, he wants
>> to disable it altogether. It seems that this is really missing in
>> the new kcm_touchpad. :-(
>>
> Quite, thank you.
> The System Settings/Hardware/Input Devices/Touchpad page you show
> says "Turn off touchpad while typing".
> I want to use the pointer on my ThinkPad rather than the touchpad,
> as I imagine do many people with pointing sticks on their keyboard.
>
Some laptops have special key combination to turn touchpad on/off.
For example on my T400 it works with Fn+F8, and it shows notification
that it is on/off. This can be a solution when available
well, in the good old days there where a hardware switch as well as for
wireless woking without the OS needs anything to know about
the same way as my HP workstations have a built-in speaker hidden with
the front panel and a headset connector automatically turning off the
internal speaker, the OS just sees a sound output and that's it
shiny new world with all the burden to the OS :-)