Talk:UltraNav

Is there a reliable way to turn off the touchpad and the lowermost buttons, but leave the other functions (trackpoint and three buttons above the pad) not tampered with? Thanks for input!

Update: Nevermind, I just found the BIOS-option to disable it :D

- colo

Yes there is with the very latest distributions like Fedora 10 with updates applied create a file like this:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/disable-touchpad.fdi

<match key="info.product" string="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad">
 <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
</match>

You will need to reboot (actually restart both X11 and HAL, but reboot is easier at that point) before it takes effect. --Tonko 00:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Script for switching state of TouchPad and TrackPoint

Hint:

A suggestion.

FnF8 can run $ untranav.sh toggle

untranav.sh

#!/bin/bash
TRACKPOINT_NAME="trackpoint"
TRACKPOINT='TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint'
TOUCHPAD_NAME="touchpad"
TOUCHPAD='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'

Usage()
{
    echo "usage: ${0/*\/} status [device]"
    echo "       ${0/*\/} enable [device]"
    echo "       ${0/*\/} disable [device]"
    echo "       ${0/*\/} toggle [device]"
    echo "device: $TRACKPOINT_NAME"
    echo "        $TOUCHPAD_NAME"
    echo "toggle order: 1) $TRACKPOINT_NAME enable"
    echo "                 $TOUCHPAD_NAME disable"
    echo "              2) $TRACKPOINT_NAME disable"
    echo "                 $TOUCHPAD_NAME enable"
    echo "              3) $TRACKPOINT_NAME disable"
    echo "                 $TOUCHPAD_NAME disable"
    echo "              4) $TRACKPOINT_NAME enable"
    echo "                 $TOUCHPAD_NAME enable"
    exit 1
}

GetState()
{
    echo $(/usr/bin/xinput list-props "$1" | grep "Device Enabled" | cut -f2 -d:)
}

Status()
{
    case "$1" in
	"$TRACKPOINT")
	    DEVICE="$TRACKPOINT_NAME"
	;;
	"$TOUCHPAD")
	    DEVICE="$TOUCHPAD_NAME"
	;;
    esac

    if [ $(GetState "$1") = "1" ]; then
	STATUS="enabled"
    else
	STATUS="disabled"
    fi
    
    echo -e "$DEVICE: $STATUS"
}

SetState()
{
    /usr/bin/xinput set-int-prop "$1" "Device Enabled" "8" "$2"
}

Enable()
{
    SetState "$1" 1
}

Disable()
{
    SetState "$1" 0
}

Toggle()
{
    if [ $(GetState "$1") = "1" ]; then
	STATE=0
    else
	STATE=1
    fi
    
    SetState "$1" "$STATE"
}

[ $# -gt 2 ] && Usage

case "$1" in
    "status")
	COMMAND="Status"    
    ;;
    "enable")
	COMMAND="Enable"
    ;;
    "disable")
	COMMAND="Disable"
    ;;
    "toggle")
	COMMAND="Toggle"
	if [ -z "$2" ]; then
	    if [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "1" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "1" ]; then
	        SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 1
	        SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 0
	    elif [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "1" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "0" ]; then
	        SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 0
	        SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 1
	    elif [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "0" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "1" ]; then
	        SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 0
	        SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 0
	    else
	        SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 1
	        SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 1
	    fi
	    exit
	fi
    ;;
    *)
	Usage
    ;;
esac

case "$2" in
    "$TRACKPOINT_NAME")
	$COMMAND "$TRACKPOINT"
    ;;
    "$TOUCHPAD_NAME")
	$COMMAND "$TOUCHPAD"
    ;;
    "")
	$COMMAND "$TRACKPOINT"
	$COMMAND "$TOUCHPAD"
    ;;
    *)
    Usage
esac    

2-finger scrolling

Info here: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1603657

Issues

I noticted that when i'm moving the cursor with the touchpad a annoying ZZZZZCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHH-sound comes from the laptop. This happends only when on battery. Discussion about the issue:

• notebook review