Turn off the touchpad on the Aspire One

Touchpads drive me crazy! Fortunately, Acer was kind (and smart) enough to make Fn + F7 toggle it on & off. And, as an added bonus, this also works in Puppy Linux 4.1.2 retro k2.6.21.7!

If I could see better, or had taken the time to read the manual, I may have discovered this on day one. Maybe this will save someone else some frustration!

Below is a slightly modified version of the help file, which on my AAO, is found at C:\Program Files\Launch Manager\Help.htm.

Help on Hot Keys

The keyboard hotkeys perform special functions.

Keyboard Hot Keys

To activate a keyboard hotkey, press and hold the Fn key, then press the other key(s) in the combination.

Hot Key	Function	Description
Fn+F1	Hot key help	Displays this help file.
Fn+F2	System Properties	Launch System Properties.
Fn+F3	Power Options	Launch Power Options.
Fn+F4	Sleep	Puts the computer in Sleep mode, which can be defined via the advanced section of the Power Options Properties in the Windows Control Panel.
Fn+F5	Display toggle	Switches display output between the notebook LCD, an external monitor and both the notebook LCD and external monitor.
Fn+F6	Screen blank	Turns the LCD backlight off to save power; press any key to resume.
Fn+F7	Touchpad on/off	Turns the internal touchpad on and off.
Fn+F8	Speaker on/off	Turns the speakers on and off.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 by Eric Chromick at 6:32 pm and is filed under AA1, Puppy Linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Turn off the touchpad on the Aspire One”

Anonymous on June 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 am

Thank you for your help!
John Kanej on June 26th, 2011 at 9:23 am

Fn +F7 Fantastic, I suffered for months, even going so far as to stick a Tim Hortons Quickpay Card over the touch pad and on my first google I found the solution.

Thanks , thanks thanks
adam on January 4th, 2012 at 8:38 am

thank you so much i’ve bad this netbook for about four weeks now and the sodding touchpad has always plagued me now it never bothers me thank you
Ulf P on November 11th, 2012 at 9:17 am

Thanks,
But I wanted it the other way.
By mistake I had obviously hit Fn+F7 and disabled touchpad a couple of days ago. Since then the touchpad did not work, not on Win7
, not on Linux.
I thought my netbook was broken. Found no setting in the bios.
Googled and found this site. Thank you. Now my touchpad works again.
Juli on August 14th, 2013 at 9:22 pm

Thanks a ton. My touchpad has been bothering me for months and your fix was perfect and fast!
Svetol Green Coffee Bean Extract on March 31st, 2014 at 7:37 pm

WOW just what I was looking for. Came here
by searching for aspire one

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