disabling touchpad on laptop

[François Patte]

Garry Williams a écrit :
> On 11/22/06, François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to disable my touchpad mouse on my laptop or, at least, the
>> "tap" function of this one.
> 
> 
> You want to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (as root).
> 
> 
> But, you may want to do what I did and turn off all the fancy
> gestures, including the tap but leave the pad active for use without
> an external mouse.
> 
> See http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/ for details.  This
> should get you what you seem to want:
> 
>    Option MaxTapMove "0"
>    Option MaxTapTime "0"
>    Option "VertScrollDelta" "0"
>    Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> 
> The first two turn off the tap function; the last two turn off the
> annoying scroll functions.

OK! Thanks; this works. I will no longer type some text at the wrong 
place in Emacs because I had put one finger on the touchpad....

-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte