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[corvus]

Good evening everyone, below a utility that serves to enable/disable the touchpad, that works with the synaptics driver, depending on the presence/absence of the mouse. It is based on an udev rule. I use it on Bionicpup64 but it should also work on the 32 bit version.

Edit: In the file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-togglemouse.rules the ATTRS{idProduct} and ATTRS{idVendor} part must be adapted with the specifications of your mouse, that can be obtained with the command:

[bigpup]

That pet is small.
You can attach it to the first post, so it can be directly downloaded from the forum.

The forums max file size limit is 256K.

[corvus]

Thanks bigpup for the tip.
Cheers