01 December 2012

Enable or Disable your touchpad using Touchpad-Indicator in Ubuntu and Mint

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Touchpad-Indicator is a small Linux utility for Ubuntu and Linux Mint which allows you to Enable or disable your touchpad while typing or when you are using external mouse.

To install Touchpad-Indicator in Ubuntu and Linux Mint, open terminal (Alt + Ctrl + t) and follow these simple steps

Step 1: Add Touchpad-Indicator Repository

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao

Step 2: Update sources.list

$ sudo apt-get update

Step 3: Install Touchpad-Indicator

$ sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

To open Touchpad-Indicator go to Dash->search touchpad-indicator,and open it you will see Touchpad-indicator icon on top (if you are using Unity) and at bottom (if you are using Gnome 3).

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Touchpad-Indicator provides different options to customize it according to your need.

how to use touchpad-indicator

That's it.
Enjoy :)


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4 comments:

  1. Mint 14 x64 gives the following error:
    sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package touchpad-indicator

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    1. Same for me, looking for an alternate source.

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