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Enable/Disable Synaptics Touchpad on Ubuntu

Nov. 21, 2014 |  ubuntu  thinkpad  touchpad  t440 
A day working from home brought out another problem the new Thinkpad. I did not have a spare mouse lying around and had to fall back to the flawed Touchpad/Trackpoint mechanism on the new T440. My original idea was to disable Touchpad completely through th

Ubuntu 12.04 on Thinkpad T440

Nov. 19, 2014 |  ubuntu  thinkpad  precise  trim  wifi  t440 
Being a slightly dated OS release, mating Ubuntu 12.04 to Thinkpad T440 hardware throws up a few challenges. This post lists these and how those can be worked around. Disclaimer: I  don't claim to have solved all these issues by myself. Instead all of them