Believe it or not, this is the first time I'm using a laptop with a trackpad (until now, all my laptops have been Thinkpads, and I've always disabled the trackpad on those. However, my T61p was showing its age, so I got me a Dell XPS 9550).
The problem: the roots of my palms (the thenors) keep touching the trackpad and moving the cursor. I could potentially change my typing habits and not rest my hands on the laptop, but is there a software way of disabling the upper corners of the trackpad?
sudo synclient TouchpadOFF=1