External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Colin,

*Pardon me for jumping in...*

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 21:36, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Settings looks quite useful. Is there any official documentation for it,
> from an end-users point of view?
> > Googling for "Ubuntu settings" didn't find much but I did find out that
> "settings" is, in fact gnome-control-center, complete with man page.
>
> To run Settings on standard Ubuntu (Gnome) you run it like any other
> app.  Hit the Super key and type Settings in the search field.  In
> fact if you type
> touch
> in the search field it will take you straight to the touchpad settings.
>

I think you read my message as if I was one of the other posters. My
message indirectly stated I could run GNOME settings.


> I am not sure how much documentation you need for an on/off switch
> labelled Touchpad.
>

That isn't my problem. I am interested to see the developers' end user
documentation. Turns out that the developers want someone to update the
docs. It looks like a lot of work has been put into this program. There is
some info, buried away here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/blob/master/NEWS

TTFN,


Ian

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