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I hate it when I write on my laptop and by hand is accidentially touching the touchpad with my wrist, the cursor ist placed anywhere, and i have to recover the scrambled text then.
In GNOME3 there is an option to disable the touchpad when typing, but this doesn't help in some cases - at least the time after typing before the TP gets enabled again is to short IMHO.

This is an idea at <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/554";>Ubuntu brainstorm</a> as well.
There is a simple and relatively easy-to-implement solution for Fedora <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-auto-disable-the-touchpad-when-the-mouse-is-plugged-in-fedora-13";>here</a>.

This would be applicable to Ubuntu as well (as the comments say) - only the text "PS/2 Generic Mouse", "USB Optical Mouse" etc. may be different ("The enable/disable commands may be different for different hardware").
Maybe there is another (better?) solution to find out what device is connected with udev.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
 
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,place,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,resize,regex,session,mousepoll,imgpng,grid,move,animation,wall,expo,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,ezoom,workarounds,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Oct  8 07:31:39 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-10-07 22:09:18.896581
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 2.6.38-11-generic, x86_64: installed
 bcmwl, 5.100.82.38+bdcom, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
 psmouse, elantech-v6, 2.6.38-11-generic, x86_64: installed
 psmouse, elantech-v6, 3.0.0-12-generic, x86_64: installed
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExtraDebuggingInterest: No
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c0a5]
   Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c0a5]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. RF511/RF411/RF711
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=6b2fb13e-4cc7-4369-9e49-dec252b9a629 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-07 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/26/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 10HX.M034.20110426.SSH
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: RF511/RF411/RF711
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.board.version: 10HX
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr10HX.M034.20110426.SSH:bd04/26/2011:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnRF511/RF411/RF711:pvr10HX:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnRF511/RF411/RF711:rvr10HX:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct9:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: RF511/RF411/RF711
dmi.product.version: 10HX
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu25
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug compiz-0.9 oneiric running-unity ubuntu
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Disable touchpad when plugging in mouse
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