Automatically disable the touchpad when you connect a mouse
I recently got a unibody macbook. And everything would be fine, but I was strained by one feature: from time to time I use an external mouse and I think it would be logical to disable the touchpad for this time. Unfortunately, I did not find such a setting, but I learned one very interesting feature.
It turns out that in the old versions of Mac OS X there was a setting I described, but then for some reason it was removed. Some people think that the included touchpad does not interfere with the mouse, but those people who think otherwise have found such a way: you just have to put the socket from the old Mac OS into the new one. This is done as follows:
After these actions we will be able to configure the feature we need using standard tools (System Preferences => Trackpad). I note that a side effect of such frauds will be that some newer settings will disappear. If they are very necessary - you can return the new panel as follows (via the terminal):
UPD: thanks to the viperet user for an alternative, simpler way to enable the options described in the article: in the console, you need to execute the defaults write command 'Apple Global Domain' com.apple.mouse.ignoreTrackpadIfMousePresent 1 to enable this option and accordingly the same with a zero on the end shutdown.
It turns out that in the old versions of Mac OS X there was a setting I described, but then for some reason it was removed. Some people think that the included touchpad does not interfere with the mouse, but those people who think otherwise have found such a way: you just have to put the socket from the old Mac OS into the new one. This is done as follows:
- Download the rapidshare.com/files/198446463/Trackpad.prefPane_for_10.5.6_by_kemo.zip file.
- unpack it somewhere, for example in the Downloads folder
- open the terminal and execute the following commands
- cd / System / Library / PreferencePanes /
- sudo mv Trackpad.prefPane Trackpad.prefPane_old
- sudo mv ~ / Downloads / Trackpad.prefPane ./
After these actions we will be able to configure the feature we need using standard tools (System Preferences => Trackpad). I note that a side effect of such frauds will be that some newer settings will disappear. If they are very necessary - you can return the new panel as follows (via the terminal):
- cd / System / Library / PreferencePanes /
- sudo rm -rf Trackpad.prefPane
- sudo mv Trackpad.prefPane_old Trackpad.prefPane
UPD: thanks to the viperet user for an alternative, simpler way to enable the options described in the article: in the console, you need to execute the defaults write command 'Apple Global Domain' com.apple.mouse.ignoreTrackpadIfMousePresent 1 to enable this option and accordingly the same with a zero on the end shutdown.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/60142/
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