External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[P. Echols]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:12 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 02:17 P. Echols, <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 8:04 AM Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
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>>> Hi!
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>>> <snip>
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>>> 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:
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>> xinput --disable 13
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>> 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:
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>> $xinput --list-props 13
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>> Any thoughts?
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> Does the synclient command work?
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> Colin
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> Thanks Colin,
No synclient does not appear to work
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