[lubuntu-users] Keyboard shortcuts (for touchpad enable/disable)

[Mark F]

I use Windows-key + Space-key. I don't recall hitting it by accident. But,
if the touchpad came on (or off) unexpectedly, I would just hit that key
combination again to return it to its opposite state.

The key combo could be further complicated (with ctrl + function?).

What alternative could exist? If it's a choice on a GUI, you need a mouse
to enable the touchpad (when you presumably may not have a mouse).

In my case, I prefer it disabled by default and want a convenient way to
enable it if I boot without a mouse.  I haven't been able to think of a way
to accommodate that without a keyboard shortcut.

I guess I could create a .desktop file for the script, and put it in the
autostart directory, and prompt at boot up if I want the touchpad or not?
That would eliminate the possibility of booting up without a mouse.

But, all this seems to support what I was saying about how frustrating it
can be as a new user, weighing what's more elegant, when it could be as
simple as a keyboard shortcut (among many -- I don't recall accidentally
hitting any of which in the past year.).

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>
wrote:

> On 09/06/2016 01:31 PM, Mark F wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see a shortcut for disabling/enabling the laptop touchpad. I
>> wrote a couple shell scripts to do that.[1] One toggles it on/off and is
>> bound to a keyboard shortcut. I call the other script from .profile to
>> toggle the touchpad off by default.
>>
>> Mark:
>
> That (to me) sounds really scary.
>
> You're typing away, hit some wrong keys, and suddenly the touchpad (your
> only mouse) stops working!  Aarrghh!!
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>
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