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Reprogram Touchpad on Laptop to act as Spacebar

Asked by Saul Lubkin

Hi!

I have an Asus Laptop running Ubuntu 14.04. I have a USB mouse connected. I've disabled the Touchpad Mouse, using
Settings->Mouse and Touchpad.

I'd like to reprogram the now defunct Touchpad to act as a spacebar.

Can this be easily done?

  -- Saul

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

xmodmap may be able to do it

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Saul Lubkin (saul-lubkin) said : 		#2

Hi actionparsnip!

Unfortunately, I was less successful than I thought in disabling the
touchpad on my Asus laptop.

Whenever I close the laptop and reopen it, the touchpad is active again.

Is there any way to permanently disable the touchpad --perhaps in the BIOS?

  -- Saul

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Saul Lubkin <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #270514 on udev in Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+question/270514
>
> Hi!
>
> I have an Asus Laptop running Ubuntu 14.04. I have a USB mouse
> connected. I've disabled the Touchpad Mouse, using
> Settings->Mouse and Touchpad.
>
> I'd like to reprogram the now defunct Touchpad to act as a spacebar.
>
> Can this be easily done?
>
> -- Saul
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
>

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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