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[Gyhor <gyhor@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

to get the touchpad working i followed this instruction from this site: 
http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/index.php/2011/05/24/better-clickpad-support-for-ubuntu-11-04/

But I had still the problem that while I am typing I touch accidentally the 
clickpad and the cursor lands somewhere.
The option "disable touchpad while typing" didn't work.

The solution is to enable the touchpad in gnome:
<code>
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean 
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true
</code>
Now the touchpad is disabled while typing.

For disabling the touchpad i used this shellscript:
<code>
# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off
# credits http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1675603
SYNSTATE=$(xinput list-props "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" | grep Enabled | grep 
-Eo '.$')
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then xinput set-int-prop "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" 
"Device Enabled" 8 1
else xinput set-int-prop "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse" "Device Enabled" 8 0; fi
</code>
and binded it with gnome-keybinding-properties to a shortcut.

regards
gyhor