External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 02:17 P. Echols, <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>

Does the synclient command work?

Colin

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