Karmic Koala makes it very easy to customize touchpad and therefore makes it more useful. Now you can disable touchpad while typing to avoid your cursor jumping all over the place and/or enable horizontal scrolling with just few clicks. Believe me I've tried to disable my touchpad while typing in Jaunty and it involves editing files that's hard to pronounce. So lucky for all of us, it's far easier now, no editing (and magic spell) required.
- go to System -> Preferences -> Mouse
- then go to touchpad tab,
- here you can find option to enable horizontal scroll, disable touchpad among other options.
That's it. It's more and more human in every release :)
keyword : disable touchpad, horizontal scroll, ubuntu, karmic koala
keyword : disable touchpad, horizontal scroll, ubuntu, karmic koala
Earlier you could disable the f.. thing completely, where has that option gone?
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my touch pad stopped working on my EeePC after my upgrade to 9.10. Goes to show you really should check the simple things first rather than assuming something is wrong. Thank you.
Any recommendations for someone who is missing that option..? I thought I had it, but that is on my tower...
I'm on an Asus UL30A...
I want horizontal scrolling!
upgraded to karmic from jaunty (64bit) i had the touchpad disabled in 9.04 via sys > prefs > mouse > touchpad. After upgrading, the same settings are in effect, but the touchpad is not disabled. Any advice?
@Kimble and exodus_MS:
try this method from ubuntuforum, especially post #27.
@nilsk : you're welcome