turning off the touchpad [solved]
Aleksander Alekseev
afiskon at devzen.ru
Fri Sep 23 07:18:22 UTC 2016
> This turns out to be easy. I got pointed to the answer from the freebsd-x11
> list. Use 'xinput list' to get the id of the psm device and then
>
> xinput set-prop 8 "Device Enabled" 0
>
> will disable it. I suppose that means adding an InputDevice section to
> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ should also work. I could not figure out the
> options from the man page however.
Note that this can turn off not only touchpad but all mouse devices in
your system. I personally turn off touchpad this way:
```
sysctl hw.psm.synaptics.touchpad_off=1
```
This will not work unless you have:
```
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
```
... in your /boot/loader.conf
--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
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