External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 09:59, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I acknowledge that I'm perhaps being too precious Liam. I need a new laptop and, having purchased another Dell (and awaiting its delivery),

Argh! Noooooo! Why didn't you ask?

> I'm looking for a way perhaps to accessorise it and deal with the troublesome touchpad without having to remember (forget) a trivial configuration detail. I wanted merely to ask if anyone had used an external touchpad because I had a grand thought that using an external device might be a solution that I will find hard to forget.

I've tried an Apple Magic Trackpad. Worked fine. Didn't disable the
built-in one automatically, no.

> Perhaps Colin's suggestion is the best that can be done.

ISTM to be an excellent one and to deliver anything that any
BIOS-based solution could. I don't see why you reject it, TBH.


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