On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 18:33, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > My old laptop doesn't have a key bound to toggling the touchpad, > > and I do prefer to work with a mouse. Is there any software > > solution to this? I really want to touchpad off by default. > > > > Anne > > It depends on the laptop. If the touchpad can be turned off with > software, there may be support for it. But it is laptop dependent. > A lot of laptops can also be configured in the BIOS to turn off > the touchpad when you have a PS/2 mouse plugged in. (Some of the > newer ones may also turn it off with a USB mouse, but I have not > run into this - I don't get to play with new laptops...) > > I could not find the bookmark with the listing of the different > laptop configuration software, but you could do a search on > your laptop brand on Freshmeat. ( http://freshmeat.net ) > There are a couple of projects for configuring touchpads, but they are for synaptic touchpads. I think those are on newer laptops than this. My newer laptop has a synaptic touchpad, but there FnF7 toggles it on and off. I was hoping that someone knew of a package that could intercept the signal somehow. Ah well.... Thanks Anne
