External touchpad for Ubuntu?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Dec 21 22:24:02 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 21:43 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> it takes you straight to that dialog.  However, I have to admit that
> if the touchpad is disabled and you don't have a mouse plugged in
> then I can't actually work out how to use the keyboard to navigate to
> the Touchpad enable switch, which is a bit of a bummer.

Once the dialogue is open and has focus, press Tab and/or use the arrow
keys until the relevant item is highlighted.

So far so good :-)

BUT: Actually toggling the setting doesn't seem to be possible without
a mouse. At least, I haven't found a key combination that changes the
toggle.

Regards, K.

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