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mdfleury

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 1

Turning off the touchpad when a USB mouse is plugged in

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73071

I'm having the same problem, as in the thread above, but I tried adding the -s and it didn't help. I did the same testing, replacing the RUN+= with touch and it created the files in my home directory, just like his. And running those commands in the terminal disables the touchpad, and turns it back on

my file is here: /etc/udev/rules.d/touchpad.rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient -s TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient -s TouchpadOff=0"