Following a recent upgrade, I find that my touchpad (Dell Inspiron 5110) is extremely sensitive, and doesn't even need to be touched to activate. I have tried just disabling it through "prefences" and using a real mouse, but every few power cycles, it re-enables. If I could just keep it disabled until I have time to fix the problem, I would be content. Advice please. TIA
2 Answers
You could use synclient TouchpadOff=1
in the terminal and use synclient TouchpadOff=0
to turn it back on.
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...provided you use the synaptics driver. However, nowadays, the libinput driver is more common.– vanadiumJul 25, 2019 at 21:43
In Ubuntu 18.04 navigate to Settings->Devices->Mouse & Touchpad and in Touchpad Block Manage Touchpad Speed to moderate.