Quick Laptop Question
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Quick Laptop Question
I use an external mouse on my laptop. Is there any way to have the touchpad automatically turn itself off when an external mouse is plugged in? I hate touchpads and I especially hate when I accidentally brush over it in the middle of a CounterStrike firefight. I thought about going into the device manager and disabling it but I didn't know if there was maybe some hidden setting somewhere that makes it disable by itself.
Thanks,
Steve
Thanks,
Steve
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I don't think there is a way to automatically have it disable, though as you said you can disable it yourself.
Edit. Looks like I'm wrong, there is a way!
Start >> Control Panel >> Mouse
Then at the bottom, you'll see a checkbox that says "Disable Touch Pad when USB pointing device is present"
In case you didn't figure it out, you check that box, and click "OK"
Edit. Looks like I'm wrong, there is a way!
Start >> Control Panel >> Mouse
Then at the bottom, you'll see a checkbox that says "Disable Touch Pad when USB pointing device is present"
In case you didn't figure it out, you check that box, and click "OK"
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Re: Quick Laptop Question
Probably not what you are looking for, but you didnt say what OSderangedsheep wrote:I use an external mouse on my laptop. Is there any way to have the touchpad automatically turn itself off when an external mouse is plugged in? I hate touchpads and I especially hate when I accidentally brush over it in the middle of a CounterStrike firefight. I thought about going into the device manager and disabling it but I didn't know if there was maybe some hidden setting somewhere that makes it disable by itself.
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On my linux laptop I did this to play UT and Wolfenstein ET:
Create file: /etc/hotplug/usb/usbmouse.usermap:
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# el cheapo optical usb scroll mouse: Find your usb id from cat /proc/usb/devices
usbmouse 0x03 0x09da 0x0006 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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#!/bin/sh
if test "$ACTION" = "add" ; then
synclient TouchpadOff 1
if test -n "$REMOVER" ; then
# usb.agent sets this variable to point to an executable that
# will be run on remove, if it exists
ln -s "$0" "$REMOVER"
fi
elif test "$ACTION" = "remove" ; then
synclient TouchpadOff 0
fi
You can install syndaemon and set it to disable the touchpad while typing (I set the delay to about 2 secs)
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