Re: Best strategy to disable a touchpad on a laptop when in Emacs?

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 07:40, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:

Problem statement:

> I sometimes touch the touchpad accidentally, with a palm and caouse
> cursor to jump around or trigger a pop-up.

Relevant context:

> I can't turn the
> touchpad of in the system entirely, it is my wife's and I am just
> borrowing it sometimes

Proposed approach:

> How can I tell Emacs to ignore all touchpad events?

…and as far as I can see you got the problem solved that way.

However, have a different approach that might be applicable in some
circumstances:

Connect an external, your own keyboard when using other people’s
laptops. This way, you (1) have a comfortable and familiar keyboard,
(2) do not approach the touchpad sufficiently to accidentally touch
it.