Is dirt or gunk stuck on your Chromebook’s touchpad? Disabling the touchpad before giving it a quick wipe-down is a good idea. You might also want to disable your touchpad if it’s malfunctioning or you use an external (USB or Bluetooth) mouse. This tutorial covers different ways to disable and enable the touchpad on a Chromebook.
Enable/Disable Touchpad Through Chrome Flags
An experimental 镀铬标志 feature allows you to disable your Chromebook’s touchpad and keyboard. The feature doesn’t work on all Chromebooks and ChromeOS versions, but it’s worth giving a shot.
Disable Your Chromebook’s Touchpad
Open the Google Chrome browser and follow the steps below to turn off your touchpad.
- 按 搜索 or 启动键 on your Chromebook’s keyboard.
- 输入或粘贴 chrome:// flags /#ash-debug-shortcuts in the search bar and press 输入.
- Type 键盘 in the search bar, open the Debugging keyboard shortcuts drop-down menu, and select 启用.
You can also access the “Debugging keyboard shortcuts” option through Google Chrome.
输入或粘贴 chrome:// flags /#ash-debug-shortcuts in the Chrome browser address bar and press 输入. That should open the Flags app and highlight “Debugging keyboard shortcuts.”
- 选择 重新启动 or 重新开张 to continue. That’ll reboot your Chromebook and disable its touchpad.
请记住, 镀铬标志 is experimental, unstable, and may not work on your Chromebook. Disabling your touchpad might even cause other hardware components, like your keyboard, to malfunction.
We couldn’t disable the touchpad on our test device—a Chromebook running ChromeOS 108.0.5359.111. However, enabling the “Debugging keyboard shortcuts” flag disabled the touchpad on Chromebooks running ChromeOS 80 or older. The flag doesn’t seem to work on newer versions of Chrome’s operating system.
If you can’t disable your touchpad, your Chromebook likely doesn’t support the “Debugging keyboard shortcuts” flag. It’s also possible that your Chromebook manufacturer disabled the functionality at the system level.
Re-Enable Your Chromebook’s Touchpad
You can re-enable your touchpad without entering the Chrome Flags menu or rebooting your Chromebook.
媒体 搜索 + 转移 + T on your keyboard to turn your Chromebook’s touchpad back on.
Touch, tap, or swipe your Chromebook’s touchpad and check if it works. Reboot your Chromebook if the touchpad doesn’t detect touch or swipe gestures.
Disable Touchpad Through Tablet Mode
Using your Chromebook as a tablet disables its touchpad or trackpad. If you have a convertible or touchscreen Chromebook, flip the screen over the hinge to put it into tablet mode. That’ll disable your Chromebook’s touchpad and physical keyboard, and open the on-screen keyboard.
You can connect and use an external mouse in tablet mode, but that’ll switch your Chromebook back to laptop mode.
Disable Tap-to-Click
The “Tap-to-click” feature allows you to left-click in ChromeOS by tapping the trackpad or touchpad. Disable the feature if you unintentionally tap or brush your touchpad too often.
Turning off “Tap-to-click” only disables touchpad taps, not the entire touchpad functionality. However, it stops your Chromebook from selecting or clicking items when you accidentally tap the touchpad.
- Open your Chromebook’s 个人设置 应用,选择 设备 在侧边栏上,然后选择 鼠标和触摸板.
- 切换关闭 Enable tap-to-click on the touchpad settings page.
获得技术支持
Unlike ChromeOS, it’s easier to disable the trackpad/touchpad on Windows and Mac computers. The methods above are currently the available workarounds for disabling the touchpad on Google Chromebook. Contact your Chromebook manufacturer or visit a computer repair shop if you desperately need to disable your touchpad.