External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 13:47, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a laptop computer, and, as I have explained many times before now, it annoys me no end that I cannot disable my touchpad.

There was a thread a little while ago, was that the one to which you refer?

Does not this disable it for you?
synclient touchpadoff=1
with =0 it should enable it again.

Colin

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> I have heard people say that I should just plug a mouse in, but I don't want to buy myself a mouse just so I can disable my touchpad. But I do think that I could buy myself an "external touchpad". I have my laptop on my lap, and I think that if I plug in an external touchpad, and rest it on the arm of my chair, this setup might just work.
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> I did a quick search, and found while these devices do exist, I found only a few references where people have wanted to use an external touchpad in Ubuntu, and nothing useful about which vendors might sell a reliable external touchpad (one that would disable the laptop's touchpad when in use and have the same or a similar set of gestures as the internal one) with a recent release of Ubuntu. I hope there's something.
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> Thanks for letting me know,
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>   Owen.
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