Workaround for Ksynaptics. (Was preventing people from making a mistake)

[Linuxguy123]

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 14:54 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 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


Here is a better work around:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814

It uses gsynaptics instead of ksynaptics.