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iggy

Member

From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 367

deactivate touchpad, if mouse is put in

hello!

my question is very simple, but the acpid does not show anything and i have no other idea to realize that. can i do it with the help of udev? would be nice.

thanks
mfg iggy

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sorry for my bad english

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: deactivate touchpad, if mouse is put in

Put
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
in the synaptics section of xorg.conf. Then you'll need to write a udev rule to switch off the touchpad (with synclient) when the mouse is plugged in. I guess that'll work. You can also check the synaptics man page to see if there's not already an option to do that.