Offing One's Touchpad

[utu]

@ forester

I presume you refer to LXDE main menu/System tools/Configuration editor,
but I've never understood just how to work that monstrosity.
I wasn't even sure it applied to 6.4.4.
Is there an instruction manual somewhere?

What I was looking for was equivalent to Win7 choice of disable
the Touchpad if another pointer was installed; not just suspend while typing.

& Thanks for reducing these ideas to match my level of expertise.

[Forester]

I presume you refer to LXDE main menu/System tools/Configuration editor,
but I've never understood just how to work that monstrosity.
I wasn't even sure it applied to 6.4.4.
Is there an instruction manual somewhere?

@utu
You've got that with only the CD edition ? May be bits of it are honoured by LXDE. Documentation ? Try http://www.gnome.org/.

@anyone else
Anyway, anyone can turn off the annoying touchpad behaviour while typing. Where ever utu put:

synclient TouchpadOff=1

instead put:

syndaemon -d -t -k