On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown > > <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily deactivate > > > > touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a while the > > > > pointer is running wild. I hoped that this would not happen in > > > > debian8, but maybe it is a hardware failure, so I have to > > > > live/deal with it. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > Bernd > > > > > > My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I couldn't > > > help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply removed the > > > synaptic package and have had peace ever since. > > > > Is there not a Fn+Key combination to activate/deactivate the > > touchpad minus the hassle? > > As best as I can make out from the x250 manual, there's no way to > disable the touchpad. I don't know why removing synaptic disabled the > touchpad. But doing so did no harm and I'm not sure why a package > manager is useful. So you don't use apt then?
