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Alex
Asked: 2009-05-29 02:21:28 +0800 CST

Mouse/touchpad toggle in Ubuntu

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How to tune Ubuntu to automatically deactivate a touchpad on mouse connect and activate on its disconnect?

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4 Answers

  1. You can manually disable an input device via:

    xinput set-int-prop "B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" 'Device Enabled' 8 0

    and reenable it via:

    xinput set-int-prop "B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse" 'Device Enabled' 8 1

    You can get the list of device names via:

    xinput list

    If you want to automate the whole process you could write a script to listen to HAL, which will tell you when devices are plugged in or removed. As a starting point you can have a look at xboxdrv-daemon.py

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  2. Have you seen this thread? Looks like they're almost there.

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  3. I use the following command in the Awesome startup script:

    lsusb | egrep -i 'Mouse' > /dev/null && synclient TouchpadOff=1 || synclient TouchpadOff=0
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  4. I have an old Compaq Armada 110, and just installed Ubuntu.

    I have connected a PS/2 mouse, which the system cannot see. On the other hand it can see the touchpand as a PS/2 vitual mouse.

    Can i change this so that i could only use the PS/2 mouse and not the touchpad ?

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