How to close the mouse in Linux

In Linux, how to close the mouse before using Thinkpad R60, without touching the mouse, you can only use little red hat, especially envy others to touch the mouse. Now I have changed a new one. With the mouse, I find this thing too boring. When you write something,
When you are not careful, the mouse does not know where it is. In Linux, I checked how to close the mouse www.2cto.com in Linux: # synclient touchpadoff = 1 turn off the mouse # synclient touchpadoff = 0 turn on the mouse R60 night light is also good, very suitable for our programmers who like to write code when the night is dark.
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