Mouse Tracker Pads are essential in some scenarios but also a massive pain in others.

When typing - I frequently end up moving the cursor or copying/pasting when typing due to accidental contact with the mouse-pad. It is even happening as I type this.

Have a button (bottom-left - perhaps another bottom-right for Left Handers) that if pressed (like a SHIFT key) enables the pad, but otherwise leave it disabled - better if the same button could also be latched-on (like a SHIFT-LOCK key) and off.

My experience is - if I am using the mouse pad, my non-dominant head is not doing anything else - so it could be used to activate this button without adding much overhead.

Or maybe have a software solution - where (say) CTRL key (etc) could take on this role. (CTRL needed to activate mouse-pad, double-tap for Latch on/off?)
-- monojohnny, Jan 21 2023

Trackpad disablers https://www.geckoan...windows-and-ubuntu/
[a1, Jan 21 2023]

Options! https://www.google....=1280&bih=752&dpr=1
Your laptop may vary... [neutrinos_shadow, Jan 21 2023]

There’s an app for that (link) - several, actually.
-- a1, Jan 21 2023


// my non-dominant head //

Zaphod, is that you?
-- a1, Jan 21 2023


My laptop has this, with a little trackpad symbol printed on the key already. Its on the f10 button, between brightness (f8 and f9) and keyboard illumination (f11). So, commercially available, etc. etc.
-- pocmloc, Jan 21 2023


hail hydra
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 21 2023



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