Disable touchpad (was: Re: switch off auto-selection of text (or what ever it is called ..))

[Colin Law]

On 27 December 2017 at 11:30, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 27 December 2017 at 22:11, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On my current Lenovo, the settings app allows the touchpad to be turned
>> off and on; when on, the pointer speed can be adjusted, tap to click
>> can be enabled or disabled, as can two-finger scrolling and so called
>> "natural" scrolling.
>>
>
> Hey! There it is.
>
> That kind of works, though it is crude and requires keyboard navigation to
> re-enable when you want your mouse back. I like the touchpad when I want to
> use it, but it gets in the way when I'm using the keyboard. I'd rather
> disable the touchpad quickly and then re-enable it when I want to use it
> just as quickly. Hence, I think it would be nice if Ubuntu had a shortcut
> key to toggle touchpad actvity.
>

You can assign a key to a command in Settings > Devices > Keyboard > Custom
Shortcuts.

Colin
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