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How to Disable Touchpad on Ubuntu

ByMohammed Rashid Posted onNovember 9, 2020November 9, 2020

My laptop has a problem with the touchpad. It acts weirdly and move the cursor around as it wish. Moreover it causes unexpected clicks and even deletes files. As I have a mouse all I want to do is to disable touchpad on Ubuntu.

Fortunately, Ubuntu has an option to disable touchpad and it’s very easy too.

Go to Settings. Choose Mouse & Touchpad option from the left pane. There you toggle off the option Touchpad to disable it.

That’s how you disable touchpad on Ubuntu.

Mohammed Rashid

Professionally, I am a software developer. I am also a tech enthusiast and always curious about operating systems, softwares, internet and apps.

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How to Get Hardware Details of Your Ubuntu PC

ByMohammed Rashid November 12, 2020November 4, 2020

Sometimes, we may want to check hardware details of our PC. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way to get hardware details of your Ubuntu PC using the terminal. Firstly, launch your terminal. You may use ctrl + alt + T keyboard shortcut to open the terminal. Now, execute the following…

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How to Disable Touchpad on Ubuntu

ByMohammed Rashid December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

The touchpad of your laptop may act weirdly when it has any hardware issues. These weird acts such as ghost touch definitely irritate the user. Using an external mouse on your laptop won’t disable the touchpad. You have to disable the touchpad manually. Let’s check how to disable your touchpad on Ubuntu. Firstly, go to…

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How to Create a Text File Easily on Ubuntu

ByMohammed Rashid October 30, 2020November 7, 2020

Sometimes, we want to create simple text files with .txt extension to save data in text format. We can use Ubuntu terminal to create text files easily in Ubuntu. Navigate to where you want to create a text file. Right-click and choose the option Open in Terminal to open the terminal from the specified location….

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How to Show Battery Percentage on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop

ByMohammed Rashid November 18, 2020November 7, 2020

Showing the available laptop battery percentage right away on the desktop is extremely useful for power users. By default, in Ubuntu 20.04, you have to click and expand at the top right menu to see the exact battery percentage. Still, there’s way to show battery percentage in Ubuntu. First of all, you should have Gnome…

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How to Opt Out from Problem Reporting on Ubuntu

ByMohammed Rashid November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

Annoyed with messages to send crash reports in Ubuntu? Every time one of your apps crashes you may be prompted to send reports. Let’s check how to opt-out from sending problem reports in Ubuntu 20.04. Go to Settings. Choose Privacy from the options given in the left pane. After that select the Diagnostics option. Then…

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How to Install XAMPP on Ubuntu

ByMohammed Rashid October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

XAMPP is a free and open source package which helps us to setup php development environment. It consists of Apache distribution with PHP, MariaDB and Perl. It is easy to setup and let’s see how to install XAMPP on ubuntu. You can install XAMPP on ubuntu by following the steps given below. First of all…

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