Disable touchpad in Ubuntu 10.10

by Matt on Jan.24, 2011, under Matt Gorecki

Since Ubuntu 9.04, the option to disable the touchpad entirely was removed. Touchpad-indicator is small tray icon that lets you disable the touchpad quickly. Should work in Ubuntu 9.04 and up.

Touchpad-indicator

Jumaliesdupelvethyui

Thanks.

This script changes the value of gnome-mouse-properties -> Touchpad -> “Enable mouse clicks with touchpad” when executed. It can be run with a keyboard combination set in gnome-keybinding-properties (if you place the script inside /usr/bin as administrator or root you won’t need to put the path or location of the script before its name. Remember to make the script executable):

#!/bin/bash

mode=”$(gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/tap_to_click)”

if [ $mode == "true" ] ;
then
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/tap_to_click false
else
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/tap_to_click true
fi

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Taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1567479&page=2