[svlug] KUDOS: Turn off touchpad in Linux Mint

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:33:24 -0700
Jesse Monroy <jesse650 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Usually with previous Linuxes and *BSD finding the answer
> was a major PITA.
> 
> First try.
> Google: linux mint turn off touchpad
> 
> First forum and first answer:
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=124795
> 
> THE ANSWER IS:
> synclient TouchpadOff=1

And here's my shellscript, called "touchtoggle", which I associate with
an easy hotkey on every laptop I own:

===================================================
#!/bin/sh

curstate=`synclient | grep -i TouchpadOff | sed -e"s/.*= //"`
if test "$curstate" = "1"; then
	synclient TouchpadOff=0
else
	synclient TouchpadOff=1
fi
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SteveT

Steve Litt 
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