How do you disable your synaptic trackpad in Ubuntu

[David Kramer]

Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> synclient TouchpadOff=1
> 
> It requires this under your InputDevice section for the Touchpad in your
> Xorg.conf:
> 
>  Option          "SHMConfig"

Well, that was part of my belayed rant.  There's nothing about mice in
my xorg.conf.  And if I put one in there by hand, it's likely it would
get overwritten by some program.