Thread: touchpad configuration hp pavilion g7-1204sa under 10.04

hello,

i've been googling again, no avail.

want able disable touchpad of laptop can type without cursor jumping on place when accidentally brush touchpad. ideally able use enable/disable feature built touchpad, reading around, think beyond what's currenly possible. i'd quite happy keyboard short cut enable/disable touchpad, or try out feature i've read touchpad intelligently disabled when type. think gsynaptics give me plenty of useful options play can't work.

if install gpointing-device-settings, pointing devices menu under system>preferences, gives me options middle button emulation , scrollwheel emulation, nothing disable touchpad.

if install gsynaptics, touchpad menu entry under system>preferences, when click message

code:

gsynaptics couldn't initialize. have set 'shmconfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or xf86config use gsynaptics

i've followed instructions here enable shmconfig, adding new hal policy , rebooting doesn't change , still error message shown above. should adding policy specific machine or 1 above ubuntu page everyone? how can tell if policy being loaded?

if it's of use, following output.

code:

synclient -l couldn't find synaptics properties. no synaptics driver loaded?

i'd appreciate can offer. please ask , i'll post output help.

i've come solution, it's not great job. because i'm hoping there proper solution using either gsynaptics or gpointingdevicesettings, wont mark thread solved.

little bit of googling led me command enable/disable touchpad

code:

xinput --set-prop "ps/2 synaptics touchpad" "device enabled" 0

i wrote short shell script toggles touchpad on , off, , bound script keyboard shortcut, using system->preferences->keyboard shortcuts

toggle script shown below

code:

if [ "`xinput --list-props 'ps/2 synaptics touchpad' | grep 'device enabled.*1$'`" ]; xinput --set-prop "ps/2 synaptics touchpad" "device enabled" 0; else xinput --set-prop "ps/2 synaptics touchpad" "device enabled" 1; fi

this rough around edges, guess job until find better solution. suggestions on getting gpointingservices working gratefully received.

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