Disable any and all touch pad response

Hi. How do I Disable any and all touch pad response? Having random button click via touch pad has become very dangerous. One of my machines is down until I get this resolved. I can't find any controls in the OS to kill these default "features".

Thanks!

You could of course disconnect the touch pad (or use a computer without a touchpad)
you could research 'synaptic' it is a package used to control touch pad options.

Chris M

I don't have the option of using anything but the built in touchpad for a mouse. I'll look into synaptic. Thanks.

bottleworks wrote: I don't have the option of using anything but the built in touchpad for a mouse. I'll look into synaptic. Thanks.

How will you operate the machine if you disable the touchpad then?

Oh I bet you just want to disable it while linuxcnc is running. don't think synaptics is going to help with that.
If you just want to disable tap-to-click synaptics will help. in fact on Ubuntu 10.04 I can do that by going to
system / preferences / mouse and selecting touchpad options.

You must be doing something odd to not be able to get rid of the touchpad.
If you figure it out please post the solution.

Chris M

Let me clarify what's going on...

This machine uses a wireless keyboard - "Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 with Built-In Multi-Touch Touchpad" See: amzn.com/B005DKZTMG

This is the best input solution I have seen for a LinuxCNC install. It provides great flexibility. The only issue is the touch pad. It accepts touch actions by default with no apparent way to disable it.

I only want the touch pad to move the mouse. No clicking, no 2, 3, 4 finger gestures, etc. The two mouse buttons below the track pad are the only thing I want for clicking the mouse.


Why this is such a safety concern is, if you have the mouse pointer over a button, the track pad can (AND DOES!) randomly think the user is clicking the mouse. It then clicks whatever the pointer is hovering over. With me, this is beyond safety theory. I've now had the machine activate on it's own. Luckily, no hands were in the work area.

So, the simplest long term solution is to disable the track pad for everything, but moving the mouse.