Ok, this Lenovo is a week old and I’m tired of brushing the touchpad when I’m typing and having my curser go off into left field etc. So…is there a way of turning the touchpad off entirely in 14.04 instead of just disabling while typing etc? I always use a wireless mouse when I use a laptop so the …

Hi, on laptops there is a FN key + whatever button combo that will disable the touchpad, just look in the handbook for your model!. :smiley:

Touchpad behavior

wolfman 16 March 2017 11:22 7

I cannot help you with that problem without more info, have you tried doing a full system update in case you have missing dependencies?:

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