Ubuntu – How to disable the notebook Touch Pad when a wireless USB mouse is connected

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I have a Logitech MX Anywhere wireless USB mouse which works very well with Ubuntu. However, I would like to disable the touch pad when this mouse is connected. I keep hitting the touch pad with my wrist or thumb and cause the mouse to move to another part of the screen. I am constantly fixing typos.

I've had this problem since I installed Ubuntu 9.10. I'm not sure if it is because the biometrics is part of the touchpad, the way the device is built into the system, or the BIOS which does not let me disable it.

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Definitely not the only way, but one way to do it would be to install gpointing-device-settings and check the "Disable while any other devices are connected" checkbox in the "General" tab for your touchpad.

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I have external drives that drop without warning but are easy to get back the original power supply should have had enough total wattage at 300 watts however the 5 Volt was overloaded.

Right now I have put in a 250 Watt power supply just to get it running when the old one lost most of the 5 Volt capability. I have another 300 Watt power supply that I will replace that one with later when I take it apart again look into your power supply to check unplug other USB stuff. If you can and see if the offending peripherals get better. Also I have had conflicts with USB stuff where I had to keep my printer unplugged unless I was using it and it caused other things not to work properly look into that by disconnecting other stuff one thing at a time.

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