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Where the property is one of the available properties shown by synclient -l Links for further reading In general you can configure any property of your Synaptics touchpad by synclient property=value. Turn palm detection OFF: synclient PalmDetect=0 Turn palm detection ON: synclient PalmDetect=1 I have not tested this myself, but if your goal is to not move the mouse when your arms are resting on the touch pad, this might help. Turn touchpad OFF: synclient TouchpadOff=1 Turn touchpad ON: synclient TouchpadOff=0

Test if synclient is installed: synclient -V (it should report the version number) I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and on my machine it was installed by default. If your laptop is equipped with a Synaptics (or ALPS) touchpad you can indeed use synclient as already mentioned by Shutupsquare. There are at least two methods (that I know of) you could try.