Bug 221084 - Provide a configuration option to turn off the pad when a mouse is detected
Summary: Provide a configuration option to turn off the pad when a mouse is detected
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 415364
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_mouse (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marie Loise Nolden
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Reported: 2010-01-03 11:30 UTC by Kern Sibbald
Modified: 2021-11-03 11:06 UTC (History)
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Description Kern Sibbald 2010-01-03 11:30:13 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Please provide a configuration feature that allows automatically disabling the mouse pad when another mouse is plugged in.  Some of the new mouse pads are extremely sensitive and a light touch of the pad when you are typing enters lots of characters creating chaos.  When you are working only with a pad, that is one of the things you must deal with, but when you have a "real" mouse plugged in, I would like to have a mode that will automatically disable my pad -- at least for "selections" and entering the equivalent of keystrokes.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-01-04 13:47:39 UTC 
If this should be automatic, it would have to be done inside X11. You could still use the synaptic tools to turn touchpad on and off, e.g. via a hotkey. For more information, see http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=KDE+turn+off+touchpad
Comment 2 Fushan Wen 2021-11-03 11:06:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 415364 ***