External touchpad for Ubuntu?

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** Reply to message from "P. Echols" <p.echo926 at gmail.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2020
18:16:01 -0800

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 8:04 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > if [ "$DISPLAY" == ":0" ]; then
> >     xinput --disable "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
> > fi
> >
> >
> I have been doing something similar on my laptop. A script that toggles
> containing the command:
> 
> xinput --disable 13
> 
> Where 13 is the xid of the TouchPad.  Now that i have upgraded to 20.04,
> this no longer works.  In fact the command typed in a terminal doesn't
> work. Neither does it work formulated as Volcker suggests, using the exact
> device name as shown by:
> 
> $xinput --list-props 13
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>

I am running Ubuntu 20.10 and the touchpad has ID of 15,  Run "xinput list" to
see what ID the touchpad has, it may have changed.  Another thing that I have
noticed is that in the 'xinput list' is that the touchpad is not listed as such
it is shown using the model number of the device.

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