@ Forester

I was surprised to find how much built-in (meaning man synaptics)
control and info exists for the synaptics touchpad.
In so doing I ran across the following interesting tidbits:

controls GuestMouseOff(Boolean) and SynapticsOff(Values 0,1,2).

Perhaps you are already aware of these; if not maybe they offer some
refinements for your keypad/mouse amendments. The ff gives even more
details than the man pages.

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc...naptics.4.html