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    From bad sector@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 28 07:22:09 2024
    I keep disabling the touchpad in BIOS but the buttons adjacent to it and
    under it seem to be live. Is the *touchpad* the one BIOS item for all of
    these or is it possible for the OS to re-enable them? I use only a mouse
    almost all the time. TIA

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 28 16:08:54 2024
    On 28.04.2024 um 07:22 Uhr bad sector wrote:

    I keep disabling the touchpad in BIOS but the buttons adjacent to it
    and under it seem to be live. Is the *touchpad* the one BIOS item for
    all of these or is it possible for the OS to re-enable them? I use
    only a mouse almost all the time.

    You can use xev to check that. I assume touchpad only means the
    touchpad itself.

    With xinput, you should be able to display and disable the devices you
    don't want.

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    kind regards
    Marco

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  • From bad sector@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Sun Apr 28 11:14:23 2024
    On 4/28/24 10:08, Marco Moock wrote:
    On 28.04.2024 um 07:22 Uhr bad sector wrote:

    I keep disabling the touchpad in BIOS but the buttons adjacent to it
    and under it seem to be live. Is the *touchpad* the one BIOS item for
    all of these or is it possible for the OS to re-enable them? I use
    only a mouse almost all the time.

    You can use xev to check that. I assume touchpad only means the
    touchpad itself.

    With xinput, you should be able to display and disable the devices you
    don't want.


    Thanks, I installed both of them and they WERE showing things, but
    before going into all that I went back into BIOS to check. Sure enough
    under Mouse/Kybrd everything except F1-F12 was disabled. At the time I
    was using Tumbleweed w. plasma6 so I looked up the KDE system
    Quick-Settings and there (again) disabled all the related items that
    could be disabled. I should have known that BIOS settings are no longer
    what they once were, which is a bummer if using mamy OSes :-)

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