External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[P. Echols]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:17 PM Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
>
> ** Reply to message from "P. Echols" <p.echo926 at gmail.com> on Tue, 22 Dec 2020
> 18:16:01 -0800
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> > 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.
>