External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2020, 18:16 -0800 schrieb P. Echols:
> 
> 
> 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?

But the "13" is the right device ID, is it ("xinput --list")?

On my laptop, I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 too, and it works...

Bye,
Volker
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