How to disable the touch-pad on Ubuntu
I generally HATE the touch-pad but it can still prove being useful at some situations. So here are 2 different ways to enable/disable your touch-pad on Ubuntu (I tried this on 11.10 x64, Dell Inspiron N4030 laptop only but I suppose it should work on other systems just fine) 1. Install the touch-pad indicator sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator Then start the touch-pad indicator from "Applications Search" Ubuntu application. 2. Remove the touch-pad module sudo modprobe -r psmouse #To enable it again: sudo modprobe psmouse That's it ! Sources: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/05/how-to-disable-enabletouchpad-in-ubuntu.html