Technitrix

One of the first thing I do whenever I install a new OS is to disable the annoying touchpad on the laptop. I  don't know about other people, but my touchpad never lets me type a single sentence without moving the cursor to someplace I don't want. The following works on Arch Linux. If your are using something else, your mileage may vary. 1) Find out the name of your touchpad device. Mine is "Elantech Touchpad". bash $ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ RAPOO RAPOO 5G Wireless Device id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keybo...