" And it can't be disabled in the BIOS / firmware setup? Or physically removed?"
nop, no workarounds available unless you are in the mood for some serious hw hacking...
xinput is a very small utility.
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On Wednesday, 19 de September de 2018 às 17:57, HumMy <whatsfunny@???> wrote:
> This is an accupoint, toshiba style, there are are also from ibm, lenovo, etc
>
> https://www.gadgetguy.com.au/cms/wp-content/uploads/toshiba-portege-z10t-review-26-450x228.jpg
>
> The output of xinput looks like this:
>
> amnesia@amnesia:~$ xinput list
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
> ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
> ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Toshiba input device id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
>
> the device to disable is id=11
>
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> On Wednesday, 19 de September de 2018 às 17:34, intrigeri intrigeri@??? wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > HumMy:
> >
> > > i need this software in the main build because i have a laptop with
> > > accupoint that keeps the mouse moving all the time making touchpad
> > > impossible to use.
> >
> > Could you please point me to what this "accupoint" thing is?
> > A DuckDuckGo search yields many results that seem unrelated.
> >
> > > via persistence options, you can have it installed, but not
> > > available at login time and so you can't really use the dotfiles
> > > feature to script your way through because the program won't be
> > > installed when the scripts are run.
> >
> > One way to solve this is to have your post-login script wait for
> > tails-additional-software-install.service to have started. Once this
> > is done, the Additional Software are installed.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > intrigeri
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