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I spent my early afternoon figuring out how to turn off the tap feature for the touchpad on my laptop. I know how to do it from the command line, but needed to figure out how to make it sticky across sleep/resume cycles.

For those of you searching for a solution to the same problem take a look at pm-utils. The following template (when placed in /etc/pm/sleep.d) should give you all the control you need over the sleep/resume cycle.

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
    hibernate)
        echo "Hey guy, we are going to suspend to disk!"
        ;;
    suspend)
        echo "Oh, this time we're doing a suspend to RAM. Cool!"
        ;;
    thaw)
        echo "oh, suspend to disk is over, we are resuming..."
        ;;
    resume)
        echo "hey, the suspend to RAM seems to be over..."
        ;;
    *)  echo "somebody is calling me totally wrong."
        ;;
esac

Remember that to turn off the tap feature run

synclient TouchpadOff=2

. You’ll need to enable SHMConfig. Of course there is Ubuntu documentation for that as well.

What about at startup? Check out System–>Preferences–>Sessions, your one stop shop for scripts to run when Gnome starts.

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