External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2020
00:52:54 +0100

> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 23:52, Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> >
> > It seems to me that people are making this more complicated than it really is.
> >
> > I have :xinput disable 15" (find the device ID using xinput list) in my
> > .profile and a small bash script to toggle the touchpad enable/disable.
> > Assigning that simple command to a key combination should be very easy.
> 
> Um. With respect, that is _not_ a simple solution and not one that I
> could suggest to anyone but a highly-technically-skilled user.

When it comes to linux I am NOT a highly-technically-skilled user.

The bash script I got off the internet to toggle the touchpad enable/disable
does not work on my system.  I hard coded the device ID to get it to work,
after a few days I think I have figured out why it does not work.  Now I am
trying to figure how to fix the code so it will work properly (I am not a bash
programmer).

-- 
Robert Blair


What one person receives without working for...another person must work for without receiving. -- Adrian Rogers