Re: how to automaticaly turn off touchpad using xinput

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Kraus
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:36:40PM -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: > > The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and > > having > > it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the > > keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some auto

Re: how to automaticaly turn off touchpad using xinput

2010-07-06 Thread Arthur Machlas
> The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having > it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the > keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do > this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by i

how to automaticaly turn off touchpad using xinput

2010-07-06 Thread Martin Kraus
Hi. I've been running X without xorg for a year now to my complete satisfaction. The only problem I have is a touchpad which I don't use and it only gets in the way. I'm turning it off with xinput because the sl410 lenovo I have doesn't allow to turn it off in bios as the ibm thinkpads I've owned p