To disable the touchpad on an HP Pavilion dv6, you double tap on an area in the upper left hand corner of the touchpad. Then the blue indicator light around the border of the touchpad turns red, and the touchpad is disabled.
Double tapping on this area again turns the touchpad turns back on. I do a lot of typing, and frequently bump the touchpad, messing up my work and annoying me. So, I would like to enable the ability to disable the touchpad by double-tapping on the area in the upper left hand corner. Unfortunately, there is no function key backup to disable the touchpad.
This does not work in Ubuntu. I can turn it off using touchpad-indicator, but the program must be manually started and you have to disable using the key combination. Double-tapping the area is much easier. My computer is the HP Pavilion dv6-6135dx. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The option you mentoined is a driver feature - there is no linux alternative for that until someone do patch for it.
Look around touchpad settings and you'll find useful replacement settings. For example you can set up a keyboard shourtcut to turn on/off touchpad.
will disable your touchpad while you are typing and re-enable it when it feels that you are using your finger on the touchpad.
Not sure if it will fit your needs but its a solution that fits me perfectly on my laptop.
To revert to the default parameter use
If it doesn't help drop a comment, well figure out something about your touchpad.
I've found that blacklisting or removing the 'touchpad' completely is what I wanted.
So if you have annoying behaviour while typing in Linux and you can use a USB mouse instead you can do this:
To disable the touchpad:
To re-enable the touchpad:
In Ubuntu 17.04 there's a "System Setting" for "ignore touchpad while typing" that might be generally useful (not enabled by default):