Suddenly, at some random moment when using my laptop, for apparently no reason, my touchpad goes into some kind of "special mode". Reason: I desperately needed an answer to this problem because the problems I was experiencing with my touchpad made doing any kind of work impossible. Then you'll have to run this last line (Thanks for catching this Arch Stanton!) xinput enable X (You may have trouble trying to enable it again if you can't type into the terminal. Save all your work and be prepared to restart your computer if you do something like disable your keyboard. Make sure you are NOT DOING ANYTHING IMPORTANT. Note: If you're not sure which device id you should use to disable the touchpad, then you can find out by testing random id's and seeing if your mouse pad still works. Then replace X in the following command with the id number representing the input device you want to disable: xinput disable X You want to find the device id that corresponds to the input device you want to disable (Maybe something that sounds like "touchpad"). Next: Notice where it says id=X in one long column for every input device. First, open a terminal, and print out all input devices to find the id you need for the input device you want to disable.
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