External touchpad for Ubuntu?

[P. Echols]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:39 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 08:25 P. Echols, <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>> 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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> Check to see if there is a firmware upgrade available for your mother
> board.
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> Colin
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> Thanks, as mentioned in my reply to Volker, switching to Ubuntu, non
wayland works and now both synclient and my script with xinput work as
desired.
I assume that unity uses Wayland as does the default desktop.  Seems like
there should be a way to control these devices from CLI / script when using
wayland.
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