Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?

[Arthur Miller]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 07:40, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:
>
> Problem statement:
>
>> I sometimes touch the touchpad accidentally, with a palm and caouse
>> cursor to jump around or trigger a pop-up.
>
> Relevant context:
>
>> I can't turn the
>> touchpad of in the system entirely, it is my wife's and I am just
>> borrowing it sometimes
>
> Proposed approach:
>
>> How can I tell Emacs to ignore all touchpad events?
>
> …and as far as I can see you got the problem solved that way.
>
> However, have a different approach that might be applicable in some
> circumstances:
>
> Connect an external, your own keyboard when using other people’s
> laptops. This way, you (1) have a comfortable and familiar keyboard,
> (2) do not approach the touchpad sufficiently to accidentally touch
> it.
Yes indeed, but I am away from home and don't wanna carry around a
keyboard. Disable-mouse-mode, works really fine. The touchpad still
moves pointer around; would like to turn off pointer motion too, but
presses are ignored, so it is good enough.