Ksynaptics. (Was preventing people from making a mistake)

[Todd Zullinger]

Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Thanks !  That is a good work around.

No problem.

> How would one disable the touchpad entirely.

Looks like Kevin just sent an example (and used valid xml too :).

> When does this file get read ?  Is there a way to force it to be
> read so that one could change the settings on the run via a script.

I believe that file is read whenever the touchpad is detected by HAL.
I think it practice this means whenever HAL is started.  I'm not
honestly sure how you might go about forcing it to be re-read.  A
restart of haldaemon might work, but I'm not sure if that always works
smoothly or not.

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