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Touchpad deactivation

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2025-06-09

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When you have big hands and a little keyboard

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Until now I was using synclient TouchpadOff=1 in my .xinitrc, but I was getting odd +results when using the keyboard mouse buttons. It turns out oddly the lower left area of my touchpad was infrequently active +and messing things up.

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Replacing synclient with xinput set-prop 11 172 0 fixed it.

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I obtained the touchpad ID with xinput list and the command with xinput -list-props 11

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+ $ xinput list
+ ⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
+ ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
+ ⎜   ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse                 	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
+ ⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint                   	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
+ ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
+     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+     ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse                 	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]
+ ∼ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=11	[floating slave]
+ 
+$ xinput -list-props 11
+Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
+    Device Enabled (172):	1
+    ...
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+$ xinput set-prop 11 172 0
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