External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 22:12, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon., 21 Dec. 2020, 1:11 am Colin Law, <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There was a thread a little while ago, was that the one to which you refer?
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>> Does not this disable it for you?
>> synclient touchpadoff=1
>> with =0 it should enable it again.
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> Thanks Colin. I'm trying to find an option that means I stay away from writing scripts and configuring keyboard shortcuts, but perhaps I am beginning to come round to your suggestion.
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> I would love Ubuntu to have had a shortcut configured but my wish has gone unanswered these past years and I'm still looking for an option that keeps me away from doing what I'm sure you think is bleedingly obvious.

You don't have to write any scripts, just configure two keyboard
shortcuts to run the synclient commands, one to disable and one to
enable.   Assuming the commands work for you that is.

Colin