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Topic: Disable touchpad when usb mouse is plugged in

It is a bit annoying to have to keep your hands propped up, because you don't want to brush your touchpad when you have a mouse installed. Well, the following are really simple steps to automatically disable the touchpad when a mouse is detected:

1. Create a rule in udev:
*Note: This step requires root privileges, if you don't understand what root privileges are, you probably shouldn't be doing this.

vi /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

*Note: Substitute whatever editor you prefer for vi.

2. Insert the following:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ID_CLASS="mouse", RUN+="/home/todd/.scripts/mouse-touchpad-toggle-on"

3. Restart your X session.

ctrl + alt + bkspc

or if you do not have "zap" enabled in your xorg.conf, simply reboot from your menu or:

*Note: This step requires root privileges, if you don't understand what root privileges are, you probably shouldn't be doing this.

reboot
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