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Is there a way to keep my touchpad disabled?

I have a thinkpad E420s. I have disabled the touchpad because the built in buttons are too hard to click without moving the cursor. I just use the red nubbin on the keyboard aand upper bottons instead.

For some reason the touchpad keeps getting enabled forcing me to go back to system settings -> Mouse & Touchpad -> to set the Touchpad to off. I am not sure how to reliably reproduce this. It usually stays after a shutdown, or use of guest session but then sometimes it just appears on.

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Is it possible that the reason for your mousepad being enabled again is that you push a certain key combination on your keyboard? I use a ThinkPad T420s, where the combination to disable the mousepad is fn+F8. Maybe it works with your PC as well.

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  • I don't think there is a combination to disable the touchpad on my computer. fn + F8 does F8 and just pressing F8 is screen brightness up.
    – zorkerz
    May 20, 2014 at 17:05
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I use touchpad-indicator, install the deb, open it and disable touchpad

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