How can I disable my touchpad?

Question

I would like to find a way to turn my laptop touchpad on and off. (I generally use a mouse instead.)

I use an HP laptop. Thanks.

@user13499 What is the model of your laptop? What version of Ubuntu are you running?
Would the tool in this answer help? It allows complete control over the touchpad.
-HP-G62-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package touchpad-indicator reborn@reborn-HP-G62-Notebook-PC:~$

Alan · Answer 1 · 2011-05-03 06:50:51Z

Touchpad-Indicator will allow you to toggle on/off the touchpad, simply, and quickly.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:atareao/atareao.

sudo apt-get update.

sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator.

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Roland Taylor · Answer 2 · 2011-04-03 03:53:17Z

up vote 3 down vote

Open gconf-editor, navigate to /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad and uncheck "touchpad enabled".

answered Apr 3 '11 at 3:53

	omg, thanks a thousand! – Jose King Apr 3 '11 at 3:57
	@user13499: glad to help ;) (btw I have an HP too) - also remember to mark the question as answered by clicking the check box on my answer. – Roland Taylor Apr 3 '11 at 4:01
	The key "touchpad enabled" is not available on my system (a Dell Precision) – daniel kullmann Nov 16 '11 at 8:23
	@danielkullmann what version of Ubuntu are you using? You may need to open a new question. – Roland Taylor Nov 16 '11 at 13:25
	I'm using 11.10 – daniel kullmann Nov 16 '11 at 16:20

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belacqua · Answer 3 · 2012-05-01 17:19:53Z

The Jupiter applet lets you turn on and off your touchpad (as well as power-management, bluetooth, wifi).

Also see this question: Disable pad click

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