[sf-lug] turn off trackpad at startup

[jason stone]

Eric

Are you wanting to disable it at startup and then after?  If so, perhaps you have option of disabling in the BIOS.  I've done so with my Thinkpad W510

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On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:04 PM, "Eric W. Rasmussen" <ericwrasmussen at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a command that I would like to be run at login
> 
> xinput set-int-prop "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Device Enabled" 8 0
> 
> We put it in at the end of the .bashrc and it doesn't activate until I open a terminal
> 
> We used it as a script in the GNOME startup, but that didn't work
> 
> we inserted it into /etc/X11/xinit/xintrc  and that didn't work, either.
> 
> we inserted it into etc/rc2.d , with no avail.
> 
> How do I keep the trackpad from activating on startup????
> 
> Much thanks to the LUG group for all the help
> 
> ewr
> 
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