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?

Are you happening to run Wayland? If so, you could try it with X. You should
be able to select the one in your display manager (the login screen).

Bye
Volker
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