{"id":108,"date":"2010-03-10T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T06:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/ubuntu-9-10-disable-touchpad\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T06:27:44","slug":"ubuntu-9-10-disable-touchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/ubuntu-9-10-disable-touchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 9.10 &#8211; Disable touchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to disable your touchpad on Ubuntu 9.10 then issue the following commnad once:<br \/><code>gconftool-2 --type boolean --set \/desktop\/gnome\/peripherals\/mouse\/touchpad_enabled false<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then to disable the touchpad issue the following command:<br \/><code>synclient TouchpadOff=1<\/code><br \/>This command is just active for the session so when you reboot your machine you will have to issue it again.&nbsp; What I have done is to add it to my Startup Programs.&nbsp; You will find Startup Programs under System|Preferences|Startup Applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to disable your touchpad on Ubuntu 9.10 then issue the following commnad once:gconftool-2 &#8211;type boolean &#8211;set \/desktop\/gnome\/peripherals\/mouse\/touchpad_enabled false Then to disable the touchpad issue the following command:synclient TouchpadOff=1This command is just active for the session so when you reboot your machine you will have to issue it again.&nbsp; What I have done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}