[Swlug] Dsabling the trackpad

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 at 20:43, Rhys Sage via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> I set up dad's laptop to use Debian 12. What I didn't know at the time was that he has problems with the trackpad and prefers to use a mouse. He's using an older HP laptop.
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> On my Asus I can just press Fn + F9 to turn the trackpad on or off. I did find a way of doing it via the terminal but dad really shouldn't be let loose on terminal. He doesn't understand computers at all. I gave him the terminal commands but it probably won't work. Is there a simpler way of doing it via just keyboard shortcuts?

Write a shell script to run the command and assign a key combination
to run the command.  You will have to look up how to do that in
Debian.

Colin