xserver-xorg.synaptics question

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:24:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 27 April 2015 20:17:57 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:15:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me how to edit the /usr/share/X11/50-synaptics.conf
> > > file, which when copied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, will disable it
> > > totally?
> >
> > what exactly do you want to do? ignore the device completely?
> >
> > Section "InputClass"
> >    Identifier "ignore touchpads"
> >    MatchDriver "synaptics"
> >    Option "Ignore" "on"
> > EndSection
> >
> I put that into the file, then renamed it to Xorg.conf when that didn't 
> work, followed by another reboot, no difference in the behaviour or the 
> Xorg.0.log.
> 
> Does it belong in the Xsessions.d subdir?  
> 
> And what is its correct name?

put it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-ignore-synaptics.conf

Cheers,
   Peter